• HubertManne@kbin.social
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    7 months ago

    Its scary how history is sorta lost to. I mean Im a pretty guy in terms of reading and research but before carter I don’t have any first hand experience on stuff and it took decade of life before I realized just how bad nixon was. I knew about watergate and sorta his assholerly vaguely but learning more about his influence on healthcare and foreign affairs and man all sorts of stuff. What scares me is I have little perspective for before him and I just not sure how bad his predecessors were.

    • JohnnyEnzyme@lemm.ee
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      7 months ago

      I’m hardly a presidential scholar, but from what i understand, the country hit a peak of greatness under FDR’s reforms. Wages were very fair, consumers had lots of buying power, and there were social safety nets in place. Even after FDR, i think those things stayed relatively stable for some years before traitors and capitalists gained the upper hand.

      The great irony is that boomers were pretty much the first new generation to enjoy the fruits of FDR’s work, and now they’re one of the biggest bases taking part in working to destroy democracy.