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minus-squareAsafum@feddit.nllinkfedilinkarrow-up33·1 month agoI have a coworker who said “I’m a Regan Republican, I always believed trickle down economics” just last year… I said “man how many more fucking decades of it not working do you need before you realize it’s bullshit??” He was just like “hmmm, yeah I guess…” Some people just put 0 thought into a stance they acquired at some point in the past…
minus-squarebigfondue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up15·1 month agoWow, income growth for the bottom 80% just stopped in the 1970s. what a weird coincidence!
minus-squareBeeegScaaawyCripple@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up4·1 month agoso more nixon republican then
minus-squarebigfondue@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·edit-21 month agoNeoliberalism began with Carter though https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jimmy-carters-ruinous-neoliberal-legacy/
I have a coworker who said “I’m a Regan Republican, I always believed trickle down economics” just last year…
I said “man how many more fucking decades of it not working do you need before you realize it’s bullshit??”
He was just like “hmmm, yeah I guess…”
Some people just put 0 thought into a stance they acquired at some point in the past…
Wow, income growth for the bottom 80% just stopped in the 1970s. what a weird coincidence!
so more nixon republican then
Reagan was the 80s.
Neoliberalism began with Carter though
https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/jimmy-carters-ruinous-neoliberal-legacy/