11-15-2016, 04:51 PM
(11-15-2016, 04:09 PM)Eric the Green Wrote:(11-15-2016, 03:53 PM)Odin Wrote:(11-15-2016, 11:51 AM)X_4AD_84 Wrote: Reaganism or whatever one might want to call it, as it was commonly understood during its 1980s heyday, is sooooooo 2T. That's right, I wrote 2T. His platform was hatched right smack dab in the middle of the 2T. It took him a few tries to get it going. Well, I can't give him complete credit, certain aspects started under Carter. Many people forget that. In any case, although the ideas were hatched during the 2T, they came to full fruition toward the end of the 2T, and they lasted for a good part of the 3T. In any case, it's time to move on. The ideas are over 40 years old.
No use trying to get Eric to understand this, he is in 100% complete partisan ideological denial that Reaganism is just as much a product of the 2T as the Counterculture.
Uh, Odin, did you read my reply? It not only goes back to the early 80s, but to 1964. Of course it's 2T, but it's also 2T/3T from the last saeculum, and further back......
No, it's not. Reaganism may have latched on to the LANGUAGE of 20s neoliberalsm, and while Reagan himself may have been an admirer of Coolidge, in actuality it is a new beast, tapping into the same distrust of centralized technocratic authority as the Counterculture. Reaganism is not some continuation of age-old conservative small-government-ism, it is the Red complement of the Counterculture and it is just as much a product of the Awakening as the Counterculture. Remember that the whole notion of the "popular tax revolt" started in the 70s.
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