>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.
From the American bourgeoisie's point of view it was. It may be past last call now, but they had a great 20-year party, didn't they?
Doug