The same shit as right now.
Allowing presidents to pick your justices and then giving them jobs for life is the stupidest system ever created. Ripe for abuse.
There is higher than 0% chance that DJT won’t reach a deal with Iran “Soon”, the possibility of oil crisis and economic recession are still very real.
Right now, prices and availability are being kept semi stable by draw downs on strategic reserves, but that won’t last forever.
Definitely not the flex they think it is.
That was before the Southern Strategy
The what?
Essentially racism as a political platform developed by Nixon’s campaign as a reactionary movement to the Civil Rights movement.
Jerry Falwell didn’t want his whites-only college to be integrated by mandate, and started the Moral Majority, a voting bloc that didn’t care how crooked a candidate was (or worked against their interests) so long as they were anti-abortion-access. And this helped Reagan win by a landslide in 1980.
And as many history analyses will show you, Reagan was the beginning of the end of the United States by an uncountable number of different metrics.
To oversimplify, the parties “switched” platforms in the 60s when Republicans realized that they could appeal to uneducated, racist white people.
The southern strategy was also kind of the major tactic the Democratic Party used to maintain the New Deal coalition. It essentially meant ignoring southern racism in favor of major infrastructure. Southern states just fucked over infrastructure projects where it served black people. It fell apart when, in the 1950s, the Democratic Party began to pursue racial rights.
*edit But it was Nixon and the GOP that coined it as a term I believe. It’s a long standing strategy in American politics, though.
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a failure so spectacular, it lead to fdr, the new deal… republicans wouldn’t win the white house back until 1952.
And even that took an actual fucking war hero who could have just as easily been a Democrat.
And only 6 years after they finally got the Whitehouse again, they started plotting for the next massive fuck up era by founding the John Birch Society (which is a major cause for the GOP’s current psychosis.
Don’t forget about the McCarthyism of the late 40s and the 50s. Ronald Reagan was involved with that particular movement since the beginning when he testified in front of Congress (specifically the House Un-American Activities Committee) saying that communists were taking over Hollywood.
that wasn’t ike, though. those nutcases thought he was a commie.
Yeah, I agree. As conservatives go Ike was pretty reasonable.
My point was that almost as soon as the party got the Whitehouse again, influential portions of it started to plot for the next Great Depression like catastrophy.
As an ideological movement, they’ve proved many times that they cannot be trusted with power.
The rich people made a lot of money from the last Great Depression, I bet that’s what they’re hoping for again.
Yeah but the Democrats were competent back then. I don’t have confidence in most of the modern Democrats. There are only like 3 of them who seem to get what’s going on
A lot of that comes from the development of corporate lobbyists and special interest groups in the 1970s. Even then they were highly regulated, and oversized campaign contributions still counted as bribes. That all changed after Reagan got into office, and Gucci Gulch got unfettered access to elected officials. After that, a lot of politicians were too tempted by the prospect of getting fantastically wealthy and forgot about the dream of changing the world for the better.
A lot of this isn’t really new. To quote Rutherford B. Hayes, The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of workingmen. These need to be exposed and repealed. All laws on corporations, on taxation, on trusts, wills, descent, and the like, need examination and extensive change. This is a government of the people, by the people, and for the people no longer. It is a government of corporations, by corporations, and for corporations.
So the influence of wealth and corporate interest on political power is, in fact, an old problem. What frustrates me is how reforms could have been made during their rare collective moments of conscience, and they didn’t. To be fair, civil liberties of non-whites and women were a higher priority.
fingers crossed history repeats itself lol
The world cup reminds me of the 1936 Berlin Olympics.
Yep…
I don’t want another world war, or Jim Crow…
A quarter of the trans population in the US has already been displaced due to the new Republican Jim Crow laws.
I think we’re already in the middle of both of those.
Beginning, sadly.
You’re working on the former whilst the latter never really went away.
well I meant the part about Republicans not getting the house for a long time lol
200 million deaths later, in the 1950s… worth it, said the world?
Surely we learned from our mistakes?
Party like it’s 1928! But with soda and lemonade!
The Trump depression is going to make 2008 look like a picnic.
But I’m already very depressed!
In response to 2008 we didn’t actually fix anything, bail outs just postpone the inevitable.
The New Deal didn’t fix things, but kicked the can down the line as well. Anything to prevent us from giving up on capitalism.
I think Techno-feudalism may push us over the line. < Bolshevik chorus swells >
Just harder to get a mortgage, but way easier to get a car loan.
2008 was “just” a recession. A depression is much, much worse
They don’t know a lot of things
It’s what Republican’s do best; fuck up the economy.
Rich people back the party that doesn’t want to strip them of power and wealth.
The same thing happened in 1928 Germany.
Conservatives are – and have always been – the enemy of the people.
In their view the Great Depression was probably started by a bunch of lazy woke activists who didn’t want to work, thus spurring the dust bowl with their uh, inaction. Dust everywhere. No one dusting.
They should sweep the forests, like they do in sweden
Somehow screwworm has returned
Screwworm was a problem in the US in 1928.
Interesting. I wonder how it was resolved given their lower medical knowledge…
More cattle inspections, and when humans or pets got infected, digging them out with a knife. It was true horror.
Knowing what happened in 1929 would require reading and thinking…
*knowing how to and/or being capable of reading and thinking
- Massive amounts of what effectively amounts to gambling on the stock market.
Luckily, we have nothing like that today.
We have an extremely stable, rational market where share prices are based solely on tangible business value and not at all artificially inflated due to completely unrealistic goals and investor greed.
…I’m sorry. I can’t even type this with a straight face.
What is this Artificial Inflation? I’ve seen no such thing.
Man, I couldn’t get past “rational” without laughing.
Hey, at least this time the republicans aren’t jerking off to nonsense tariffs, right?
