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You can draw a neo liberal shitstorm bumpy line from Regan to Trump.

Regan telling Iran not to release the hostages until after the ekection and if he won he'd sell then weapons (Iran-Contra) and he's elected twice.

Carter had bad ratings because he wasnt a typical US President, he actually gave a fuck about people and place. Welfare queens indeed ffs

Reagan was part of a concerted effort by the mega rich to destroy anti-corruption efforts and put power in the hands of a unitary executive more akin to a dictator. Oligarchs love strong centralized power because it’s easier to corrupt.

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I've always said it and I'll keep saying it because it is undeniably true.

Not a single one of America's enemies on the face of the Earth could harm Americans more than the Republican party does.

Yeah, solar panels are nice, but in spite of the different branding, "the path Carter set us on" was still neoliberalism. Carter was the beginning of the end of the unions and the postwar consensus around Keynesianism and progressive New Deal policies.

Carter was facing an economic problem known at the time as "stagflation," where things were getting more expensive while wages remained stagnant. Keynesianism called for the government spending more when wages are low in order to stimulate the economy, and spending less only under good conditions, to balance the budget and save for a rainy day. It failed to predict stagflation because stagflation was caused by the tendency of the rate of profit to fall. But Carter chose to focus on inflation rather than stagnant wages, against the interests of unions and setting us on the path of neoliberalism.

The big difference between Carter and Reagan was that Reagan was much better at selling Americans on neoliberalism because he was willing to lie through his teeth about it. Carter's message was that neoliberalism would mean tough times and sacrifices, but that it's a chance to set aside crass materialism and focus on finding other forms of fulfillment, because what really matters is being a good person on an individual level. Reagan's message was fuck all that, think of all the cheap plastic shit you'll be able to buy, plus unions are commie shit anyway, and all that social responsibility crap is just helping black people and gays so fuck it and fuck them. But it was the same economic policy of neoliberalism under both. Americans preferred Reagan's messaging so much that he got literally 10x the electoral votes as Carter in 1980.

The reason why we're here is not because we failed to chose Carter over Reagan, but because those were the two choices we were stuck with, one neoliberal who lies and one neoliberal who tells the truth. Since neoliberalism fucking sucks, most people are going to go for the one that lies and says it'll be good, which is why Reagan beat Carter in 1980 with 10x the electoral votes. But the solution is not to somehow convince people to vote for the more honest neoliberal, it's to provide an alternative to neoliberalism altogether.

he's literally the problem almost every single time there's a long standing problem. most of it traces ban to Ronny which is amazing considering he may have been brain dead the entire time.

They were water heating panels. Not photovoltaic. They did not produce electricity. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_power_at_the_White_House

Conservatives are PURE EVIL. Every single one of them. They've fought against every civil right advancement in history. Under Reagan, they publicly celebrated the deaths of countless victims of AIDS and did everything in their power to maximise the number of victims. They attacked every researcher who tried to help.

Conservatives consider anyone who can experience empathy to be their enemy. They call empathy "woke" and want it to die. As long as they continue to live, conservatives will never stop oppressing and killing the normal people. They can't. Because they are truly, deeply evil.

Every war and every genocide in human history has been caused by conservatives exclusively. Nothing good has ever come from conservatism. Nothing at all.

Conservatives are the very definition of evil and must be completely redacted if we are to ever know peace.

Conservatism should be considered a intensive hate crime against humanity.

It's so crazy to blame Reagan, while ignoring the vast industry that had already consumed the political infrastructure of dozens of states.

Carter was as much a creature of the O&G industry, when he supported our fascist allies in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, plus the industry at home.

Nixon was even worse.

But this goes so far beyond who was president at any given moment. Like, if you're going to blame anybody, blame the folks who figured out Plastics. After the 1980s, plastic exploded the demand for petroleum.

I dunno, America problems and corruptions were there on day one, your founding fathers were total monsters.

Dont think Carter's policies could have changed your course that much.

I've been saying the exact same thing for decades. Imagine where we'd be today if we had embraced solar and wind 50 years ago?

It's all about boiling water anyway. Who cares how we boil it? Shouldn't we boil it the cheapest, easiest way possible? The sun's beating down, the wind is blowing, it's easier to harvest that, than drilling holes a mile into the Earth.