My dad served in the navy in WWII, and like many others of the so called greatest generation, who, along with the country as a whole, benefited from Roosevelt's New Deal, Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society—GI Bill, affordable housing, subsidized higher education for their children, strong labor unions, social security, me…
My dad served in the navy in WWII, and like many others of the so called greatest generation, who, along with the country as a whole, benefited from Roosevelt's New Deal, Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society—GI Bill, affordable housing, subsidized higher education for their children, strong labor unions, social security, medicare and medicaid, a thriving economy, and more economic opportunity for all—started to like the sound of Reagan's policies of lower taxes and less government regulation because they thought it would beef up their investments and give them a comfortable retirement after all their hard work and sacrifice.
We can assume, looking at all the electoral success Democrats had through the decades after WWII up until Reagan's victory against Jimmy Carter in 1980, that these guys, and probably their spouses had been voting Democrat. The big shift happened with Reagan's landslide victory over Mondale in 1984 and the country has been on the decline ever since.
That horses and sparrows analogy is disgusting. It basically says regular everyday folks should have to eat the sh*t big corporations throw out. So demeaning to ordinary people. Small businesses don’t operate like big ones. The small ones need to take tax breaks to reinvest in their small business, a family owned restaurant, for example. They have no stock to buy back like big companies do. I read once that voting Republican was tantamount to voting for a recession. They have been trying to gild their crap for years to make people think they are fiscally responsible.
I agree. People who control the Republican party believe they are the chosen few ordained to run everything, including the government, so they can accumulate as much wealth for themselves as possible and leave the rest of us to fight over the crumbs. It's too bad that so many people are so ignorant and gullible that they allow themselves to be manipulated by these oligarchs who use wedge issues and the culture war to divide us so they can drive public policy in a way that benefits them to the detriment of the rest of the country.
My father was in WWII. There is a big difference today. Those basically "in power" right now are the eldest kids of the WWII generation. When they were in their formative adolescent years, their fathers were overseas at war, and from every direction they heard constant tales of world war, and then the collapse of Europe and European empires and decades of nuclear threat and cold war designed to keep Americans distracted.
It's no surprise they are a bunch of paranoid psychotics who see demons behind every tree.
My dad served in the navy in WWII, and like many others of the so called greatest generation, who, along with the country as a whole, benefited from Roosevelt's New Deal, Kennedy's New Frontier and Johnson's Great Society—GI Bill, affordable housing, subsidized higher education for their children, strong labor unions, social security, medicare and medicaid, a thriving economy, and more economic opportunity for all—started to like the sound of Reagan's policies of lower taxes and less government regulation because they thought it would beef up their investments and give them a comfortable retirement after all their hard work and sacrifice.
We can assume, looking at all the electoral success Democrats had through the decades after WWII up until Reagan's victory against Jimmy Carter in 1980, that these guys, and probably their spouses had been voting Democrat. The big shift happened with Reagan's landslide victory over Mondale in 1984 and the country has been on the decline ever since.
That horses and sparrows analogy is disgusting. It basically says regular everyday folks should have to eat the sh*t big corporations throw out. So demeaning to ordinary people. Small businesses don’t operate like big ones. The small ones need to take tax breaks to reinvest in their small business, a family owned restaurant, for example. They have no stock to buy back like big companies do. I read once that voting Republican was tantamount to voting for a recession. They have been trying to gild their crap for years to make people think they are fiscally responsible.
I agree. People who control the Republican party believe they are the chosen few ordained to run everything, including the government, so they can accumulate as much wealth for themselves as possible and leave the rest of us to fight over the crumbs. It's too bad that so many people are so ignorant and gullible that they allow themselves to be manipulated by these oligarchs who use wedge issues and the culture war to divide us so they can drive public policy in a way that benefits them to the detriment of the rest of the country.
My father was in WWII. There is a big difference today. Those basically "in power" right now are the eldest kids of the WWII generation. When they were in their formative adolescent years, their fathers were overseas at war, and from every direction they heard constant tales of world war, and then the collapse of Europe and European empires and decades of nuclear threat and cold war designed to keep Americans distracted.
It's no surprise they are a bunch of paranoid psychotics who see demons behind every tree.