Where the Boomers Led Us, Or Our Worse Presidency to Date

[JasonBlack]

(07-29-2022, 05:22 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Nixon was by no means fully neoliberal. After all, he instituted the EPA. He did not reduce taxes as a scheme to increase growth. His election and the outcome of 1968 was the start of a general conservative trend, but it was Reagan who instituted the neoliberal regime.

Beat me to it. I'm not a fan of Nixon, but mostly on account of the war on drugs and some shady dealings (that's a euphemism for...genocide).

Quote:If Manchin coming on board pans out with a vote within a week for the revised and watered-down BBBBB, then that is a good start for breaking up neoliberalism and of a reform decade, with the conjunction of Dec.2020 marking the shift as expected; although if Republicans take the House, then that's another 2-year delay at least for more reform and more shift. So TBD yes, but if this bill goes through it's a major fulfillment of the trend I expected to start at this time.

IF the Democrats can keep the House, and pick up two more seats in the Senate, then bypassing the filibuster to pass the Freedom to Vote Act would be another huge step very much in line with the reforms I have predicted. Since it has already passed the House, then 2 or 3 Senate victories might actually be enough to at least get that and other reforms which the House has already passed. If that's the way it works, without a chamber reconciliation process needed.

I think a lot of the problem with the United States is that we pay similar rates of taxes as other developed countries, but they actually....get something out of their tax dollars. Among normal people, both Democrats and Republicans have wanted infrastructure reform for DECADES, but both party's leaders keep using it as a bargaining chip and it never gets done.