The early ‘80’s can be summed up in 3 words: “Government is bad.” Citizens were told this endlessly, by people who had expended considerable money and effort to join the bad government, which they proceeded to loot where they could ,and wreck everywhere. All that decaying infrastructure around you? The neglect began in the early ‘80’s. Good citizenship was discouraged. “Greed is good” was another 3-word saying popular then. Private equity was born in the ‘80’s, to mature into the monstrously destructive force it is today. The Private Sector was a god. Pretty much every problem you see today, with a few exceptions, was born in the ‘80’s.
Many citizens have never lived under functional Federal or state government and have no idea what that was like. It wasn’t perfect, but it was better than what we have now.
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Date: 2023-04-03 03:59 pm (UTC)Many citizens have never lived under functional Federal or state government and have no idea what that was like. It wasn’t perfect, but it was better than what we have now.
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