Comment by QuercusMax

Comment by QuercusMax 17 hours ago

4 replies

Many of our current society's problems can be directly traced back to Reagan-era policies. Anyone who seriously believes in trickle-down Reaganomics is a fool or a liar.

Herring 14 hours ago

Those economic policies were a backlash to the 1970s Civil Rights pushes. You can always count on racists to destroy themselves rather than to stop abusing others.

  • johnnyanmac 11 hours ago

    That LBJ quote rings true more and more with each passing year.

    “If you can convince the lowest white man he's better than the best colored man, he won't notice you're picking his pocket. Hell, give him somebody to look down on, and he'll empty his pockets for you.”

    • will4274 11 hours ago

      My favorite LBJ quote has always been the one about voting for Democrats for a hundred years. A true believer in equality, he was.

  • will4274 11 hours ago

    More a backlash to the economic policies of the 1970s and their effects than the social policies of the 1970s actually.