03-20-2022, 10:53 PM
(03-20-2022, 08:28 PM)galaxy Wrote:(03-20-2022, 09:08 AM)David Horn Wrote: This is the problem with our bifurcated politics. In the last 1T, and I believe the next one too, the liberal view of economic policy was king, but the conservatives controlled the culture. So we had all the things you mentioned and a stifling culture to enjoy them in. The last 2T was inevitable, and the next will be as well.
What's fascinating - and what I didn't expect - is that it looks like the liberals, after taking control of the culture during the 2010s as the 3T bible-thumping moralism died down, are turning into the new conservatives. I did not see that coming, and I'm not completely sure how to feel about it.
All the while the recent 3T was said to be socially liberal yet fiscally conservative. Am not sure this is an entirely true. For the former there were the well ballyhooed crackdowns on so many things, the Big Three being public smoking, drunk driving and sexual harassment. Underneath those were animal cruelty, public loitering and a stricter enforcement against underage drinking. The last of these runs counter to most of the rest of the world where one can legally drink at younger ages. The US is just about the only place where one must be age 21.
For the latter there was much fiscal recklessness during the turning which by and large replaced the social recklessness which had been a hallmark of the last 2T. The savings and loan debacle and the housing crisis of 2008 being the most obvious examples.