• Jo Miran@lemmy.ml
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    I’m old enough to remember the Reagan years. They absolutely sucked. I also voted for and was happy with Clinton. That said, in hind sight, Reagan set the house on fire, but the deregulation during the Clinton years threw a barrel of napalm into it to help it along. 1980-2000 is when we destroyed it all.

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      If Gore had won the presidency, things would have turned out very differently. And let’s not forget that things worked out quite well for a while under Clinton.

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        Same with Reagan (for some). When you rip out the brakes you get to go fast, which is great, until you need to turn or avoid a brick wall.

        The positive effects of deregulation are instantaneous, which is great for the current administration. The shit hitting the fan takes its time, which is bad for later administrations.

        EDIT: Gore did win. Never forget that.

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            When the votes cast were actually counted in Florida, Gore had more. FL was called for Bush before then, and the SCOTUS ruled 5-4 that what they initially called should stand.

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      The Clintons also laid the groundwork for scaling up the prison population to boost slave labour and poors suppression.

      Something the republicans gladly inherited.

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      I’m not old enough to have voted, but I remember the last few of the Reagan years, when his dementia was just as obvious as McConnell’s or Feinsten’s.

      Wilson started it, Roosevelt and Eisenhower propped it up, inadvertently or not, Nixon continued it, and Reagan paved the way for the shit we see today.