Person Man
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2012, 11:07:14 PM » |
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Well, since Ronald Reagan the average American has been brought into this neoliberal nationalist folklore and of of course the Republicans are seeing how far they can run with it. Barack Obama has been very peculiar about getting a lot done in this environment but not changing it. I suppose, in a way, he is like Nixon 2.0 and in a way this is a lot like the early 70s where one party is going off the deep end and the other is just begining to get its act together...or it could be like WWI where the out party simply got lucky because of some crises in leadership and that when things start to get better, the establishment will be roaring back with such a vengance that its excesses will cause a problem that is so pervasive that the other party will become more than just a protest vote or a short term solution.
I'm guessing it will be 1) rederegulating the Healthcare System and causing another deregulation bubble, 2) the final collapse of the student loan bubble as more 20somethings still cant find work after having to retrain after their first dog didn't hunt (the first two are basically the 20s), 3) a neoconservative or nationalist administration gets us into a war that escalates or at least can't easily be won or 4) there is a period of miscalculated forced cultural engineering . (the latter are basically the 60s...but 4 could just as easily apply to the 20s)
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