Johnathan Allen spoke to Trump supporters in Pennsylvania and found some willing to pay more at the pump while others were calling it quits with Trump.
Looking critically I think it really started at Nixon.
That was the first real crack in the idea that government and society will work for the people, even if they don’t now. The draft was repealed then. When the us went to war it was everyone’s problem. Now it’s not.
Regan took the ball and ran with it. Radically slashing social safety nets while improving wealth for most. I wasn’t alive for it mentally Ill people didn’t used to live on the streets by the 10,000’s of thousands. Unions protected workers much more than what we have now before that.
There used to be some kind of idea we were all in ‘this’ together.
But maybe since I wasn’t there none of that was true then either.
Looking critically I think it really started at Nixon.
That was the first real crack in the idea that government and society will work for the people, even if they don’t now. The draft was repealed then. When the us went to war it was everyone’s problem. Now it’s not.
Regan took the ball and ran with it. Radically slashing social safety nets while improving wealth for most. I wasn’t alive for it mentally Ill people didn’t used to live on the streets by the 10,000’s of thousands. Unions protected workers much more than what we have now before that.
There used to be some kind of idea we were all in ‘this’ together.
But maybe since I wasn’t there none of that was true then either.