It’s also dumb to pretend the “boring” era wasn’t politically aberrant as well. They were setting the stage for what we are seeing now, and it’s telling that people are only getting upset now that fascism is getting focused inwards and domestically instead of outwardly towards other countries.
It’s naive to believe that this is anything aberrant to begin with.
They have been setting up this stage since the fucking New Deal made concessions to the working class to stymie a growing threat of working class revolt. Not even a few years later they enacted Taft-Hartley and began dismantling union power.
There was a slight resurgence of working class action during the Civil Rights movement but unfortunately that was all co-opted by the establishment in order to keep the working class divided.
The Gilded Age rober barons were pissed they lost their fiefdoms and then began to systematically claw it back from the people ever since.
yeah this is a fair point, there has not been a time in US history when our politics was not fucked up in same way or other, and we weren’t doing a bunch of terrible shit both across the world and domestically. I just hate when people look at Trump and are like “yep, this is what we’ve always been, every President is exactly like this.” Because they are simultaneously so right and so very very wrong about that.
It’s also dumb to pretend the “boring” era wasn’t politically aberrant as well. They were setting the stage for what we are seeing now, and it’s telling that people are only getting upset now that fascism is getting focused inwards and domestically instead of outwardly towards other countries.
It’s naive to believe that this is anything aberrant to begin with.
They have been setting up this stage since the fucking New Deal made concessions to the working class to stymie a growing threat of working class revolt. Not even a few years later they enacted Taft-Hartley and began dismantling union power.
There was a slight resurgence of working class action during the Civil Rights movement but unfortunately that was all co-opted by the establishment in order to keep the working class divided.
The Gilded Age rober barons were pissed they lost their fiefdoms and then began to systematically claw it back from the people ever since.
yeah this is a fair point, there has not been a time in US history when our politics was not fucked up in same way or other, and we weren’t doing a bunch of terrible shit both across the world and domestically. I just hate when people look at Trump and are like “yep, this is what we’ve always been, every President is exactly like this.” Because they are simultaneously so right and so very very wrong about that.