“This system is not fair to us.” But the enemy arrives by limousine.
Unless it’s prom, they’re allowed during prom.
There was a Golden Era when a high school drop out could get a Union job that would pay for a house and a live-at-home trad wife.
Then those guys felt disrespected and took revenge by electing a Hollywood actor to fight the coastal elites.
Iirc the main reasons at the time were the economy, fuel shortages and Iran.
Which is kind of ironic.Probably the main difference with today is that there’s no fuel shortage, but is expensive af, and the previous economic malaise was caused by staglation (high unemployment and high inflation).
The post-Vietnam war and post-Watergate 70s was a bad time to be around for most, and Reagan used this as a pretext that Keynesianism wasn’t working and that small government (i.e. tax cuts for the rich, deregulation*, low social expenditure and somehow imcreased defense expenditure) would save the economy, but we know how the story goes.
*Deregulation had started with Carter.
Never talk about the 1980 election without pointing out the Reagan was a traitor who did a secret deal with Iran to screw Carter.
Committing treason for political gain was a well established playbook by that point. Nixon backdoored negotiations in Vietnam in an attempt to stall an end to the war, so he could take credit for ending it. That plan backfired and the war drug on for another ~6 years, culminating in the fall of Saigon and demise of south Vietnam.
The Johnson administration knew about this and did nothing, for some reason.
With LBJ I have to think that he knew there were skeletons in his closet the GOP would expose. He was one of the richest men in Texas on a civil servant’s salary, iirc.
Oh yeah, and the “Debategate” where they mysteriously got the questions prior the debate with Carter.
I guess more accurately, before the Vietnam war, young men who graduated college (or at least finished high school) could rent a family sized apartment and feed a family of five.
In 1960, minimum wage was was $1.00/hour and the average house was $11,000.00
A good Union job, in the $2.00 range, could easily afford to buy a house and have a few luxuries. Stay-at-home moms were pretty much the rule until the 1970s, when inflation and the Arab Oil Crisis double whammy made a lot of them need to get jobs.
Wow.
Here’s a very brief rundown of how the GOP destroyed the middle class.
LBJ thought he could win the Vietnam War with a massive push. Instead he got caught in a quagmire. He was paying a lot and decided to print money instead of raising taxes. Inflation begins to creep in. Nixon gets elected as a ‘peace candidate.’ Dick triples down on LBJ’s policy. Not only does inflation increase, ramping up steel production to make tons of bombs means that the Japanese and Germans have to build their own steel mills. When the Arab Oil Boycott hits, US auto makers find that they are losing to foreign competition for the first time ever.
Jimmy Carter is elected. He solves the inflation problem by hiring Paul Volker to run the Fed. Carter loses to Reagan, who keeps Volker and takes credit for the win. But Reagan has his own plan. He cuts taxes for the rich and starts borrowing money to pay for the government. He also lets the Saving and Loan banks make billions of idiot loans with the full backing of the FDIC. [Look up Presidential son, Neil Bush and the Silverado Bank for details.]
The tl, dr is that in 1968 ‘middle class’ was one income paying for a family of four and $1 million was considered a vast fortune. By 1992, ‘middle class’ was two incomes and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
men, they bought into the manosphere that J roegan, j peterson, dana white and other right wing pundits were peddling.
If anything this videos shows a lot of us are exactly who the rest of the world thinks we are. That shot of crushed empty beer cans sent “yeah we’re orcs” through my skull.
And how dare that motherfucker rep Gurren Lagann at a far right political bullshit gathering. Literally about uprising and freedom and chud is sitting there in #PastyFascistCentral
