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In reply to the discussion: Is America in irreversible decline?? [View all]Fight2Win
(157 posts)100. we can fix it just as easily as they fucked it up,by doing the exact opposite
Remember Clinton? I know he wasn't perfect, but things were a lot better back then
But we need to undo some things he did like 'free' trade, and consolidating the media.
We need to demand Republicans follow real conservatives like Eisenhower.
They need to pay for their damn wars and big government, so raise income tax on the highest earners until it is paid off.
Then we cut the pentagon budget. Bush doubled it, Obama kept it there why?
Let's reduce it to lower levels than when Bush took office and demand audits WTF!
We need to eliminate Homeland Security, total BS, why is Obama continuing it and again it is unable to be audited.
We need to fight, not just welcome feelings of learned helplessness.
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I would say it started with Reagan. But the 2000 stolen election was a serious blow. nt
raccoon
Feb 2013
#1
When the media was bought by the right-wing. Not for the purpose of informing the populace...
BlueJazz
Feb 2013
#2
I'm on rationing already! For years I used to just get ~10 gals at a time ... Now,
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#33
It's going to be very good or very bad. My observation is that real change generally only
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#25
Nixon killed the Liberal Era. Reagan killed the Great Society. Bush killed the Constit/Mid Class.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#6
My gut feeling is the US will regionalize to survive. The divides are too great, and as
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#18
1980 - when working class americans lost their collective minds and pulled the lever for reagan.
KG
Feb 2013
#9
Whoever made the first "free trade" deal. Don't know who it was, but that was the beginning of
patricia92243
Feb 2013
#12
What's not so difficult to believe is how successful it was. Mission Accomplished.
leveymg
Feb 2013
#58
Interest rates for savings are so low it's not even worth trying to save anything. And the banks are
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#19
Thank you for posting this. Often I have tried to explain to people (off DU) that
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#20
My background in physics helps me to understand! Now, I mostly take care of my cat!
RKP5637
Feb 2013
#30
I would also say that the fundamental decline continued through the Clinton years
Jackpine Radical
Feb 2013
#37
The day the first Native American was killed so we could live on their land? n/t
jtuck004
Feb 2013
#35
I'm with Hunter S. Thompson in thinking that Nixon killed the American dream.
Snarkoleptic
Feb 2013
#49
We would need three things to stop declining or at least to decline in a way that
Lydia Leftcoast
Feb 2013
#65
Being an empire is a hard act to perform. We're getting booed off the stage. That's showbiz.
Tierra_y_Libertad
Feb 2013
#67
I'm inclined to agree that it was the Sixties. Noam Chomsky reminds us that "historical amnesia"
ancianita
Feb 2013
#89
After WW II we had the world's only intact industry and all the gold in Fort Knox
FarCenter
Feb 2013
#96
we can fix it just as easily as they fucked it up,by doing the exact opposite
Fight2Win
Feb 2013
#100
Yes to in decline, it was on the march by the 70's, and no it isn't actually irreversible
TheKentuckian
Feb 2013
#101
Unless we can get the Republicans and the corporations under control and restart democracy…
MrScorpio
Feb 2013
#112
irreversible? no. but have the economic & political masters of the universe targeted it for
HiPointDem
Mar 2013
#116