• HubertManne@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    why do this start in 92 instead of like 62 or at the very least 72. I mean the first earth day was 70 and it was beyond just pick up litter at that point. I mean we started having federal legislation due to the public pressure.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      After Nixon successfully mobilised voters by Dog Whistling, then Reagan figured out that layering on the Religious Right was another winner, unregulated capitalism was well on its way to defeating a sustainable democracy. It’s been mostly downhill from there.

      • HubertManne@kbin.social
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        7 months ago

        Its scary how history is sorta lost to. I mean Im a pretty guy in terms of reading and research but before carter I don’t have any first hand experience on stuff and it took decade of life before I realized just how bad nixon was. I knew about watergate and sorta his assholerly vaguely but learning more about his influence on healthcare and foreign affairs and man all sorts of stuff. What scares me is I have little perspective for before him and I just not sure how bad his predecessors were.

        • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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          7 months ago

          I’m hardly a presidential scholar, but from what i understand, the country hit a peak of greatness under FDR’s reforms. Wages were very fair, consumers had lots of buying power, and there were social safety nets in place. Even after FDR, i think those things stayed relatively stable for some years before traitors and capitalists gained the upper hand.

          The great irony is that boomers were pretty much the first new generation to enjoy the fruits of FDR’s work, and now they’re one of the biggest bases taking part in working to destroy democracy.