The #DumbingOfAmerica: The #StultificationOfThePeople
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After #Reagan successfully started with the dismantling of higher education for the not-well-to-do as part of #Reagonomics 2), the extremist part of #Republicans called #AmericaFirst in the 1930's and 40's, and now #MAGA are now going a step further by axing primary/2ndary ed., and the #Alignment (#Gleichschaltung) 3) of the #Education system through #MAGA-controlled state bodies.
Good article from The Walrus. I am a subscriber and if you can they could use donations subscribers etc.
https://thewalrus.ca/how-the-1980s-engineered-the-collapse-of-the-working-class/
@LunaDragofelis @mathowie yeah, #Reagonomics got copy&pasted by #reactionary #turbocapitalists all across the world!
@GottaLaff @theintercept @ThomHartmann
#USpol #FreeSpeech #Republicanism #Reagonomics #MAGA
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...inflicted on this country for the past 43 years:"
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112875414830140318.
For those asking how long this #Republican strategy that led up to #Reaganomics and the #MAGA movement had been going on, I would like to point out this important thread:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508
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#UShistory #USpol #Reagonomics
You are right, Vee, #Reagan did pull out most of the stops and changed the US political system for decades, until this very day:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
@otownKim @randahl
Surprise, surprise..._
> 50 years of tax cuts for the rich failed to trickle down, economics study says
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tax-cuts-rich-50-years-no-trickle-down/
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...and lastly, regarding #Reagonomics and what I mentioned in my "in a nutshell", here is my thread on #Reagonomics and higher #education:
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You bring up an interesting point. I have been discussing this issue for about a year now, first on the DeadBirdSite, then here.
In a nutshell: #AmericaFirst never was punished nor disbanded. They lost in the polls. People forgot. In 1971, Big Busines joined the bandwaggon with their strategy paper. #Reagonomics carried out the strategy agains the "left", i.e. students that increasingly voted Dem.
Around the turn of the century (I used to know all the details, but all lost..
You don't know my piece on #Reagonomics 1) , but absolutely!
And I believed this until recently. Then I got into a discussion with some who really did studies in that field. And we found out it goes way further back. 1930s/1940s. 2)
I am not sure if the convo is still available, if so I'll post it.
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https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
absolutely.
https://mastodon.social/@QasimRashid/110905789158988626
High time to unravel #Reagonomics and the assault on the American Dream through less and less access to college education.
@DamienMarieAtHope They never said it would do in the first fifty years. #Reagonomics do not work. #eatTheRich
And if you think that the 2.5 million fewer college students is a secondary effect, think again. It is all part of #Reagonomics:
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It is an open secret that #QLoon and most of the other #US #billionaires do not want to go back to the 20th century income-tax rates of 60 to 90, topped with a wealth tax at times.
#Reagonomics kept people in poverty, busy earning a living. Educated people do not tend to vote for the #GQP, which secures low tax rates for them.
#ItIsAllInterconnected
I have written many threads citing the sources on the #BirdSite and on...
@ThomHartmann
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..but the assumptions otherwise sound plausible OFC, now limited to the #US in geography.
This report fits in with my #thread on the detrimental strategy of #Reagonomics regarding college education
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592
Of course the pompous #GreatReplacementTheory (#GRT), though the term was coined by French conspiracy novelist, #RenaudCamus, in his 2011 novel "Le Grand #Remplacement", dates back to the works of two other #French intellectuals from the 19th century,..
yes and no. It is the wrong i-word. Not ignorance, intent.
It is the heirs´ to #Reagonomics game plan.
...saying your lacking essential pieces of the picture. The GOP destroyed the future of the middle class that FDR hat created by means of #Reagonomics, in particular regarding higher education.
This is an essential thread, where I summarize an article of a none-Maddow (;)) source:
#USpol
I would not phrase it this way but this week I listened to a BBC special on #Montesquieu.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0b5qnfx
He had the conviction that democracy in big states would always be corrupted by the luxuries capitalism provided (very simplified, he wrote more than 40 books).
I think that the plutocracy the US have become since #Reagonomics and the #CitizensUnitedVsFEC case are a prime example of that.
The billionaires and the Wall Street capitalists are the problem, not a "deep state"
...how this all started. One thread here is the America First movement in the 1930s and 40s, which failed ultimately. What was breathtakingly successful, however, was #Reagonomics:
Exactly THIS
