#reganomics

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Socialist Planning Beyond Capitalism :: @beyond_capital

Never forget that Ronald Reagan tripled the national debt from $738 billion to $2.1 trillion, dropped the income tax rate on the top 1% from 70% to 28%, sold 500 missiles to Iran, let 90,000 Americans die of AIDS, and set into motion the end of mental institutions, creating a massive homelessness crisis that continues to this day. And he’s not even close to the worst president we’ve ever had.

[scrmnviking]

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I still remember the palpable feeling of relief from my parents when Regan was elected in '80.

With the passing of Jimmy Carter and the perspective of an adult who's lived the Regan legacy and seen the historical analysis of Regan, I think it's extraordinarily important that we shout from the rooftops that

REGAN WAS A SHIT PRESIDENT.

REGAN LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR OR JUST CREATED SO MANY OF THE PROBLEMS WE STRUGGLE WITH TODAY.

Fuck Regan and his Iran-Contra affair traitor bullshit. Fuck his invention of the welfare queen. Fuck his taking credit for the fall of the Berlin wall. And fuck his institutionalizing this absurd individualism/Randroid/trickle-down nonsense of Reganomics.

[morguenecrosis]

If I had a nickel for every time there was a catchy song about someone I hate, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice. Right?

[unofficial-sean]

2008: Our Generation’s Trauma

The 2008 Financial Crisis--or the Great Recession--is, perhaps, the 9/11 of my generation (that being the awkward space between Millennials and GenZ). I was an infant when the WTC collapsed, and so that means little and less to me. All I saw was the aftermath; the brutality and injustice the U.S. inflicted on the world and its own people in response. I never knew the world before that. It was just how things were.

However, I was old enough to remember a pre-2008 world. My life was (autism withstanding) typical for a culturally Christian white household. We lived well, but not extravagantly. And then the house of cards collapsed and we lost so much. No single event has shaped the outcome of my life as such.

Now, we didn’t have it the worst. Our home in the country wasn’t financed by the dogshit mortgages that led to others’ evictions. The Crisis’ effect was secondary. My father worked as a CAD technician at the civil engineering firm ESM, working on housing and infrastructure projects. After the Crisis, ESM held on as long as it could, laying off people in a trickle until my father got the axe and the firm was no more. No one was working on housing projects, anymore.

My father had to take on odd jobs to keep us afloat, but the stress of the Crisis strained my parent’s marriage to the breaking point, and divorce followed. My parent’s issue with each other had been building before the Recession, but it all came to a head in 2010.

With little income, we slowly sold off things we didn’t strictly need. Our horses and trailer, our truck, and more. It broke my mother’s, sister’s, and my own heart to see our horses go. It wasn’t enough, though, and we ended up moving into a small duplex apartment in town.

If I was struggling in school before, it was nothing compared to my post-Crisis experience. I need not continue with more details, I believe I’ve made my case. Had the marriage held, had my father kept his job, had we kept our home and our horses and the rest, my life would be very, very different. For better or for worse.

I wanted to reflect on that. It shapes my outlook, now, and the things that are really important to me. I never buy things I wouldn’t outright own. No credit, no loans. Nothing I have can be taken from me the way our house was. I, to put it gently, loathe capitalism. I loathe the political system that enabled the Crisis to happen. I loathe the response to the Crisis. I find the truly rich disgusting and inhuman; worthy of death so that we may all live in peace. and-

Did you see what just happened? Right there: read the first paragraph, and now the one just above.

I hate capitalists after the Great Recession like (some) Americans hated Muslims after 9/11. Only, capitalists aren’t some foreign underclass we can bomb to hell. They are the ones who bomb others to hell. Despite how the pain and suffering discriminated against none, somehow my parents generation still clings to Regan and his ideals like he is god himself. The tragic comedy of that fact is not lost on me.

Maybe one day, when our parents and grandparents are dead, we can take hold and change our fucked up slice of earth for the better. Never forget 2008.

[lemodemo]

Reganomics

OH MY GOD THERE HAS GOT TO BE CRACK IN THIS SONG MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMSOGOOOOOD.

[frejamart]

⚠️GOVERNMENT IS NOT THE SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM! GOVERNMENT IS THE SOLUTION TO OUR PROBLEM!⚠️

[thesaintelectric]

i think about reganomics (the song by lemon demon) almost everyday. no one understands reganomics like i do, no else cares to even try. this isnt deep im just very obsessed with the song

[fictional-men-enthusiast]

What about a meme edit of "Reganomics" where the "I'm Ronald Regan, baby" line plays over a video of a picture of Niel transforming/fading into a picture of Ronald Regan?