• fubarx@lemmy.world
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    Nixon only got laid after a date set him straight about Herodotus and his invention of ‘narrative history.’

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    Nixon had plenty of wins and took L that would have made society better. His influence to open china, the establishment of OSHA, and the desire to implement universal healthcare.

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      I think it’s important to differentiate between what Nixon did and the spirit of the time. Many of Nixon’s reforms, while positive, were done in the interest of staving off more radical reforms by the Democratic Party, many of which had become extremely popular over the past decade.

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          tbf, the period of popularity of these issues was pretty brief. Proposals which were passed by Nixon ~1970 would have been unthinkable ~1950.

          … but yeah, we’ve also lost a lot of fucking ground.

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            Yeah, wild to see even in my lifetime how much things have shifted.

            I’ve moved to a much further left country (Denmark) and hearing and seeing how it’s slowly moving to the right as well is fascinating. It’s of course a much smaller world than it used to be but it’s wild how unified all of that effort it