Potemkin prosperity

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>Carl Remick wrote:
> >
> > In every way from at least Reagan onward, the US has truly been a fool's
> > paradise.
> >
>
>Starting things with Reagan both distorts history and contributes to the
>continuing status of the DP as a major barrier to the formation of mass
>movements on the left.
>
>Carter began airline deregulation (etc).

Please note that I said "from *at least* Reagan onward" and would never 
argue that Carter or anyone earlier represented some prelapsarian paradise.  
But I think of the Carter years as being the last time there was any 
willingness at all to acknowledge that US society is Fundamentally Fucked 
Up.  Contrast Carter's "national malaise" speech (which, admittedly, 
contributed to his getting the old heave-ho from office) with Reagan's 
fatuous "morning in America" palaver.

Carl

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