Thursday, March 17, 2022

US Politics Intel (strongly advise you to read)

 gd morning worldwide! (US politics Intel) Strongly advise you to read!!!!!!!

"(...)Dwight Eisenhower, a Republican President during the New Deal order, wouldn’t have dreamed of repealing Social Security, because he believed that Americans had come to expect a vigorous welfare state. Bill Clinton slashed welfare, in large part, because he thought that the era of big government was over. Richard Nixon, a conservative by the standards of his time, pushed for a universal basic income; Barack Obama, a liberal by the standards of his time, did not. A truly dominant order doesn’t have to justify itself, Gerstle has argued; its assumptions form the contours of common sense, “making alternative ideologies seem marginal and unworkable.”(...)

Are We Entering a New Political Era?

The neoliberal order seems to be collapsing. A generation of young activists is trying to insure that it’s replaced by progressive populism, not by the fascist right.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/31/are-we-entering-a-new-political-era

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