"BETWEEN 1981 AND 2021, DEREGULATION, TAX CUTS FOR THE WEALTHY AND CORPORATIONS, THE OFFSHORING OF MANUFACTURING, AND THE WEAKENING OF UNIONS MOVED $50 TRILLION FROM THE BOTTOM 90% OF AMERICANS TO THE TOP 1%."
Heather Cox Richardson, 1/16/25
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PLEASE JOIN US ON THE GOOD SIDE! we welcome ALL of you.
THIS is the problem with every magat. They hate info and learning cuz they want to live in their make-believe world. They are deadset against reading anything that is credible, instead relying on the bs they get on fox faux news and the right-wing nutcase podcasts/radio/etc. And their similarly deluded friends. Sadly, also often in their churches, which is really nuts as no one is more anti-Christian than tsf. Any church that supports tsf is NOT a church of Christ.
The magat mantra is - do not tell me anything that I don’t want to hear. I think on some level they know they are wrong. And recently I was thinking how weird as they seem almost angrier than we are, and their 'person' won. They are angry as they know they are wrong and have been probably all their lives. And they don't have the character to admit it nor the intelligence to inform themselves on what is REALLY going on in the world. And angry as they see that everything the Democrats have been warning about is coming true, and it will hurt them, their children and their grandchildren. So frustrating as their willful ignorance is now destroying our great country.
My Dad had the character and intelligence. He'd been a republican all his life, but after Nixon he became quiet about politics. Within a few years he became a die-hard Democrat and was a delegate to Obama in one of his runs for president. Character and intelligence.
Eisenhower would be considered a Democrat in our world today. Since reagan, his republican party has become a party of greed, dishonesty and cruelty. PLEASE JOIN US ON THE GOOD SIDE.
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Heather Cox Richardson, 1/16/25
"Economists call the period from 1933 to 1981 the “Great Compression,” for it marked a time when business regulation, progressive taxation, strong unions, and a basic social safety net compressed both wealth and income levels in the United States. Every income group in the U.S. improved its economic standing.
That period ended in 1981, when the U.S. entered a period economists have dubbed the “Great Divergence.” Between 1981 and 2021, deregulation, tax cuts for the wealthy and corporations, the offshoring of manufacturing, and the weakening of unions
