From the previous thread:

For those under 50

Life wasn’t like this just a few decades ago

Those stories of 1 job per family w/ a pension, wages enough to buy a house, a car, put your kids through college and STILL have a few bucks to save

Its not a fantasy

They took it all away for greedy corporations

— Rick Taylor (@OhRick4) May 25, 2023

It certainly wasn’t like that for everyone (cough my family), but the Fifties through Seventies was probably the greatest opportunity for the unwashed majority of the country to actually have a shot at making a modest but decent living for themselves and their children.

Then they pulled the ladder up.

The same generation behind the sexual revolution, the anti-Vietnam War protests, the push for equal rights for minorities and women, went hugely for Ronald Reagan because of the misfortune of the Iranian Revolution (which Reagan had a hand in ratfucking so he could get elected) and the misfortune of the hostage rescue mission.

Typical of a conservative, as soon as Ronald Reagan got what he wanted from Iran (delaying the release of the hostages so he could get elected), he threw Iran under a bus.

The compliant media helped with their nightly “days since the hostages were seized” counters to ensure that everyone was reminded about what was happening during the reëlection campaign of former President Carter.

The only good (I refuse to be charitable) is Ronald Reagan died losing his mind to Alzheimer’s Disease and Jimmy Carter is still alive.