• Adm_Drummer@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    When I look at American politics it really seems like almost all modern problems can be blamed on Nixon and Reagan.

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      8 months ago

      It’s a shift in that era, you can’t just throw it all on them. Other crazy things are boiling in the background, there was weird Cali politics that don’t get talked about enough. It was also the era where conservative think tanks came into real power once they realized that you could just throw a ton of money at it, generate a shit load of paper and if you had enough paper people started taking you seriously, no matter if it was based in reality. As long as it was what people wanted to hear.