Every graph about the US
Every graph about the US
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Bad things doing good. Real good.
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For those that don't know, 1971 is when President Richard Nixon ended the convertibility of U.S. dollars into gold for foreign governments. The final abandonment in 1971 moved the U.S. to a pure fiat money system, where the currency's value is based on government decree rather than a physical commodity like gold.
Reagan slashed taxes for the wealthy and introduced the whole idea of trickle down economics.
These fuckers have been stealing from us for half a century.
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Rebranded the idea of trickle down.
The concept has existed since the late 19th century; it was formerly called "Horse and Sparrow Economics," as the horses eat the whole grains, and sparrows peck their meals from the horseshit.
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The Currency's value is not based on government decree but they do have the ability to alter it by changing the money supply though the value can change independent of their actions. Frankly, having a fiat currency that represents a portions of that nations economic output makes alot more sense than something like precious metals but the guardians of that fiat currency in the US have class interests that stand at odds with most of the country and the use of the US dollar as a reserve currency was a temptation that America couldn't handle.
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I despise this website. It is so wildly misleading, especially since most of the graphs don’t actually radically change until the 80s. There is no one thing that caused everything/could fix everything, it was a lot of policy changes and deregulation through the 70s and 80s.
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Because policies and actions are always instantly felt and measurable.
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As much as we could put it all on him, and he has a lot to do with it, it's not just him. It's the corporations that took over.
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We could have reversed course had Citizens United vs. Federal Election Commission never been decided the way it was. There have been some doozie political decisions over the years, but that's the one that solidified the destruction of the country.
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Bingo
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Also Nixon.
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Yes, mostly thanks to him.
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I should have invested in bad thing back then.
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That's how billionaires make their money.
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I think we all did
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Simplified, but true. Even so, my controversial brain has lots to add...
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Folksy fascism. He was the "plain spoken" proto-Trump. Some worshipped him with a similar cult-like fervor.
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Pretty much perfect
Sad, but perfect
Every day I'm grateful for the fact that I'm not 'Murican
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It started even before him.
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Some say as far back as 1776 when "All men are created equal" was just a blatant lie from the start.
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It's illegible for people with color blindness, but I get the point...
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The "some metric" is also on the wrong axis, since it's clearly showing time on the horizontal.
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If you reverse this its a solid chemical equilibrium graph.
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What I read from this graph, Reagan was the last great president, he truly made America great again.
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Ouch. Not always that well lined up on the time axis but so true.
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All it needs is a start point to make it fairly accurate. If you're not from the US the politics of the 1700's and 1800's are actually kind interesting unlike the slop we got after something like 1975. Hell, as a point of intrigue, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was at least "interesting." At the time the parties maintained much of their core belief (Democrat = big Fed, Republican = small Fed), but the implementation was split by North vs South. This led to some interesting situations where anti big Fed Republicans in the north votes for big Fed regulations while pro big Fed Democrats in the south voted against big Fed regulations. US politics used to be interesting, hell even as recently as 2012 we had situations where Republicans were trying to find avenues for conservative value illegal immigrants as a means to bolster their ranks, but all that fell through because the existing rank and file couldn't stomach illegal brown people taking jobs they didn't want.
Now US politics seems to be Fascist vs not Fascist while there are no true alternatives.
My parents, both life-long democrats, voted for him. I didn't understand that, and I was only 15 at the time. Four years later, when I got to vote in my first Presidential election, I voted for Mondale. I've voted Democrat ever since in an attempt to balance out the Fascists.
The thing is, the Dems never pleased me either. I've realized in recent years that voting for the lesser of two evils is still a vote for evil. There should be a better way.
While I am not thrilled with the Dems, if you get progressive enough dems, they will institute ranked choice voting, which is the path out of a 2 party system. GOP has never done this.
This. The only way out is an evolution of one of the two existing parties due to the probabilistic nature of FPTP. Step one is short-circuiting media, and establishing a working class unity against the rich. Need blue collar voters united to start pushing for constitutional changes state by state.
Oppose FPTP = get my vote
Sure, they'll do this just as soon as they enact universal healthcare, or federal maternity leave, or get money out of politics. Any day now ...
We have two parties that are shifting to the right and prioritize the rich at every turn. And yet, somehow, we're supposed to keep pretending that voting is going to fix anything in this country.
Voting is a bandaid and we're bleeding out at this point.
Well, you shouldn't just be voting. You should also be campaigning, researching, and even running for election yourself
The reason why we keep moving to the right is because people on the left are not voting. The right controls all three branches of government because of the way the country voted, why would the left move away from where they think the votes are being cast?
The US has a 2 party system, until that changes, it will always be this way.
Enacting ranked choice voting at the city and county level then moving on up with it.
More parties and coalitions to govern. Of course in the US there's lots of regulation that makes that all but impossible, so such laws have to change, some of them retroactively.
I completely agree with you. But I base my vote solely on who has the most of those little road side signs at stop lights.
We Buy Ugly Houses 2028!
I prefer the little letters next to someone's name, even if I've never heard of them.
My party is the good guys.
The better way is to build up political momentum locally, and then keep taking every seat you can
Luckily, there's a back and forth swing in political momentum as well, and right now progressives are making huge strides