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Particularly from 1981 on, through corporate lobbyists and the merging of various ideological perspectives from both the Republican and Democratic parties, the new lower tax system for the wealthy and for corporations took shape.
Can't vote this away
It's going to take a revolution.
Where we Make America Better!
We're MAB
I personally like Make America Decent
We're MAD!!!
Make ourselves better, MOB
Make America a Democracy and Make America Better
MAD MOB
MAAD MAB
And it'll likely be bigger than the last.
If you were born after like 1980 it’s been pretty apparent that we were all fucking lied to. Go to school, be a good person, try hard, go to college and then you’ll be set for life. What a fucking joke.
Not just lied to, gaslit.
The LulaRich documentary is basically a story about capitalism as a whole. The entire economy is a pyramid scheme.
I don't feel like I try to do things correctly or try do good things for nothing. Maybe those are the only things that will get done right today, maybe everyone around me will fuck me over for trying to be decent. But the right way is there for anyone to take that can find it, and good has never existed outside of our minds and hearts. I have to try and I have to try to be good so that I know someone is trying and that good exists. Even if it is imperfect or doesn't change anything else, it changes me.
Why the cutoff at 1980?
Why 1980?
Because Reagan is largely pointed to as the most accelerative element leading to the fallout which we are dealing with today.
I’d argue it’s pretty much everything after FDR swapped his VP Henry Wallace (who wanted to pass civil rights legislation in the 1940s) for Harry Truman (who instead dropped nukes on Japan) and has been downhill ever since… but there’s a lot of room for nuance.
BTW, my entire life I'd hear older cons bitch about FDR because even more than Carter, the cons hate the guy.
But they don't seem to realize that FDR was the motherfucking compromise. But these cons are the types that, if they were still alive today would be full magoff and supporting donvict and fElon doing their worst to our institutions, including cutting off social security, medicare and medicaid and kidnapping people and sending them to gulags in other countries, just like I'm sure they would have loved the fascist coup attempt (Business Plot) succeeding back in 1933.
Ahhh ok, just curious. Yeah, Ronnie Raygun's people brought in whole new levels of destruction.
I just didn't understand the "born after" part. I watch older movies like The Graduate or read older books like Catcher in the Rye and get the sense that much older genrations felt lied to as well...and I know I as a Gen Xer felt that I had parts of the establishment lying to me.
Yeah this sucks for so many right now.
When you go on LinkedIn and find a major tech company, those who meet the following two criteria:
…they’re numerous right? But is it <1% of 1980 born college grads who are crushing it? Or <10%, or…
I see stories that Gen Y are about to become the richest generation on record.
And then over the next ten years that Gen Z will beat even that record.
No shit guys. This has been the case for a really long time.
Yes but I think we are just now reaching a critical mass of people for whom it is over but wasn’t for their parents. I believe that’s the most important part, it’s easy to accept that other people are just worse off than you. It’s a lot harder for people to accept being worse off than their parents.
Its been over since before carlin did his famous bit. Whats happening now is like the smell that lets everyon know that the neighbor no ones seen in weeks died in their house a month ago.
It was officially over quite a long time ago. Are you just now waking up?
George Carlin said "It's called the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe it" 20 years ago. This is how America has always been, people are only now starting to wake up to that.
It wasn't always like this, but it has been for a long time, and it has been my entire lifetime for certain.
I applied to a very specific group of white men. That's it
Yeah I mean I don't think it was intended for anyone other than white men, but we did build a middle class before destroying it with neoliberal garbage politics and global capitalism shortly thereafter.
Like it was ever real to begin with
It was for white middle class Americans. That’s why they’re so angry now, they can’t guarantee their hierarchical standing so they need to try and pull every other denomination down.
It’s been over for a while. Just took people a while to realize it and admit it. Well, unless you’re republican. The American Dream is still alive. Y’know, the one where a fake billionaire felon can become prez and wreck the country while hiring a billionaire racist foreigner to fuck everything up the felon doesn’t understand. Which is pretty much everything.
Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?
"Forget it. He's rolling..."
What the fuck happened to the Delta I used to know? Where's the spirit? Where's the guts, huh? This could be the greatest night of our lives, but you're gonna let it be the worst. 'Ooh, we're afraid to go with you, Bluto, we might get in trouble.' Well, just kiss my ass from now on! Not me! I'm not gonna take this.
Was it over when Iraq did a 9\11??
It was over when Abe Lincoln wrote the Declaration of Independence.
I must have missed that
“Dream”?
Let’s not kid ourselves, it is and always has been an anxiety driven nightmare for anyone that isn’t white, male, and possesses a cognitively fractured moral compass.
I'm a privileged white male, you guys aren't having an anxiety driven nightmare?!
Good point. I fixed it.
From rags to brownshirts
Sweet.
Pretty sure white people are still making money on killing babies abroad. Seems like the American Dream is still around.
