2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Are you old enough to remember real Dem's? [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)Did you not observe that GOP monetary policies resulted in rampant inflation?
Don't any of the dewy-eyed "real Dems" here remember wage and price controls under Nixon, and the laughable "Whip Inflation Now" of Ford?
And when Carter got to the WH, do any of you people remember pushing your rusty ass car in a line a half mile long on EVEN/ODD days to the gas pump? Do you remember buying a giant plastic "needle" to stick in the gas tank to transfer gas from one car to the next? Do you remember having some asshole ice-pick your gas tank to steal your gas because of rationing? Do you remember sitting in a freezing house because there wasn't any fuel to be had?
Oh, yeah, the seventies! Those were the halcyon days! LOL!
I hate to say it, but there's a shitload of obtuse misinformation in the thesis of this effort. The Iranian hostage crisis was icing on the cake for Raygun--Carville did have it right, it was "The Economy, Stupid." Even way back then.
Reagan won the day (another white male) because the economy fucking SUCKED - the hostages were simply extra leverage. People didn't know if he'd be any better, but they were voting for change. And the white Bro crowd that installed him in the WH? They liked him just fine and gave him eight years to fuck up the country.
But he didn't get in because times were good--he got in because times were rusty, polluted, acid-rain AWFUL.
smh.