08-23-2016, 03:57 PM
(08-23-2016, 03:10 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: BTW, I view Keynesian being OK as long as it's not be used incorrectly and no longer being used democratically by Democrats to obtain voters. We don't want another Civil War or American Revolution that results in the division of American wealth. Did cable or the internet as we know it exist before Ronald Reagan?
Agreed on Keynes. LBJ's generation of Democrats were far too blatant in using the War on Poverty and civil rights movement as methods of buying or drawing in Negro votes. How could you blame them though? The votes were there for the taking? How could a politician turn away from the like? The reaction was Nixon's Southern Strategy, an association of entitlement programs with white tax money being spent supporting blacks. This turned into a rejection of all entitlement programs, and was associated with an exaggeration of how corrupt and inefficient the government is, which became a subtext of the Reagan era unravelling memes. This knot of race and money is a good size part of the death the GI's notion that problems should be solved and big problems often require large amounts of money in the solving. The dominance of the New Deal approach to government died in part of the poison of race, and the economy has been spiraling down ever since. I see the economic and racial elements of the awakening and unraveling policy shifts as significantly intertwined, but it is hard to pin how much as only the most intense racists will talk about their feelings and motivations openly. It has become too politically incorrect to do so.
This election cycle, Black Lives Matter and economic inequality seem like two almost separate themes and issues. Dig into the history a bit and one finds they are not entirely unrelated. As with the gun issue, you can't understand where we are now without knowing the history of how we got here. The politics of race underlies a lot of issues that really ought to be treated independently at this point.
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