You’re right but you’ve also framed this in the most inflammatory way possible.
The life being described by OP was very much a privilege of a vast global minority. Sure it’s something everyone should have but it’s not something that’s ever existed for most people.
Is it something that can be had again? Absolutely. But we can dream bigger than bringing it back for just Americans/Westerners (even if the West only got there via exploitation of others).
It is inflammatory because this conservative bullshit is fucking offensive as fuck to everyone on earth who were exploited by the US and its allies to make that life possible.
Is it something that can be had again? Absolutely.
No, it can’t, not in the way it happened. It happened by extreme exploitative capitalism and it ended in the exact way you are living now. Those same people are the ones who had their wealth transferred up. Those same people are the people who got foreclosed in 2008. There is no alternate ending to what happened then than the world you live in. To think you can go back to the past and live a way of life that doesn’t exist from an idealized past is conservative thought.
No one on earth will ever have that again, you need to dream much bigger where you aren’t profiting off the backs of my family with a better world for everyone that looks nothing like the regressive 1950s fantasy your boomer parents and grandparents lived in or you get the shit you have now.
You’re right but you’ve also framed this in the most inflammatory way possible.
The life being described by OP was very much a privilege of a vast global minority. Sure it’s something everyone should have but it’s not something that’s ever existed for most people.
Is it something that can be had again? Absolutely. But we can dream bigger than bringing it back for just Americans/Westerners (even if the West only got there via exploitation of others).
It is inflammatory because this conservative bullshit is fucking offensive as fuck to everyone on earth who were exploited by the US and its allies to make that life possible.
No, it can’t, not in the way it happened. It happened by extreme exploitative capitalism and it ended in the exact way you are living now. Those same people are the ones who had their wealth transferred up. Those same people are the people who got foreclosed in 2008. There is no alternate ending to what happened then than the world you live in. To think you can go back to the past and live a way of life that doesn’t exist from an idealized past is conservative thought.
No one on earth will ever have that again, you need to dream much bigger where you aren’t profiting off the backs of my family with a better world for everyone that looks nothing like the regressive 1950s fantasy your boomer parents and grandparents lived in or you get the shit you have now.