Reagan’s Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All - Craig Shirley, Fred Barnes Audiobook

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  illodiini
  March 25th, 2023
  

  Trees pollute!
  Man was a genius.

  Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All - Craig Shirley, Fred Barnes
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  toadmanga
  March 25th, 2023
  

  

  A racist old fool who crippled beyond repair his nations ability to govern itself and now we all have to keep be with the results of that. Even his son is ashamed of his parents. Disgusting. A legacy of ontological evil.

  Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All - Craig Shirley, Fred Barnes
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  AndyBook
  March 26th, 2023
  

  The country is now unrecognizable. The great America is now in history books.

  Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All - Craig Shirley, Fred Barnes
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  AudioBookBay12311
  March 27th, 2023
  

  This book doesn’t cover the most important aspect of Reagan: his neoliberal legacy.

  For example, the reforms that followed allowed corporations in the US to export middle class jobs abroad so that they could instead pay 30 cents per hour (resulting in massive private profits). He coupled this with attacks on labor unions (PATCO is a famous case of this - the labor union endorsed Reagan, and Reagan then destroyed that labor union) to further increase profits. Low wage retail/service jobs followed as a replacement. To upkeep a middle class life, the up-to-your-neck-in-debt era followed (people have to undertake tons of debt so that consumption, education and etc, a middle class life, could be upkept), which of course has greatly accelerated from the 1980s to what it is now.

  Reagan decreased social services (such as education and healthcare https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/upshot/reagan-deregulation-and-americas-exceptional-rise-in-health-care-costs.html - and etc) for the middle class and increased poverty for the lower class with austerity combined with tax cuts for the 10%. A massive 45% tax cut followed for the upper class - you have never seen anything like that. The total tax revenue (the government budget) shifted from getting 3/4ths of it by taxing corporations and top income earners, to the working class. So now 3/4ths of the government budget are funded by the working class - so when they say “we owe 31 trillion dollars in debt”, now you know what they really are saying. Imagine if the amount of tax that you paid reduced by half, while those with ungodly amounts of money had to cover the difference (as it was before), and what that would do for your standard of living. So the functioning of the state has been shifted onto the working class, while the benefactors of that functioning of the state have shifted onto the upper classes. A complete reversal. This also has a double whammy effect, as mentioned above with the debt era, the taxes that the financial elite do not have to pay, also allows them to use that capital to make massive returns by financing that debt. They get to add on top of their gigantic piles and make even more because of that. The inequality, social/political and economic problems that this has produced are gigantic, it’s a repetition of 1930s like era - the financial elite use xenophobic narratives to shift the blame onto minority groups. You can see this by the rise of supremacist groups, and in Greece, they recently had a literal Nazi party gain 1/3rd of the seats in parliament (who only lost support because the other parties absorbed their narratives and policies to retain votes. And you can guess what Nazi policies are).

  Reagan systematized continual wealth transfers to the top with voodoo economics/trickle down economics (which really is a weak attempt at misdirecting the ultimate goal of these policies - the concentration of wealth and power to the .1%). Of course the decoupling of productivity to wages followed (meaning all of the growth that the US (and the western world) has experienced in the last 4 decades, has went to the financial elite rather than the base of the people who produce that growth. Which hasn’t been the case prior the 1980s - back then when your country did well, you did too).

  He repealed so many regulations that he was named the Great Deregulator (he repealed about half of them). The most significant of which, was beginning the repeal of the Glass Steagall Act (finished by Clinton) that by now has caused several massive crashes (and one was prevented in the first Bush era by regulators - the book “The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One” by William K. Black has a section on this). The most recent crash caused by the repeal of Glass Steagall, is the gigantic 2008 - 2009 housing crash that caused a transfer of trillions of dollars of wealth from the working class to the .1%. 10 million Americans “lost” their homes because speculative investment was merged with banking, which allowed literal criminal behavior by the bankers because they knew that they will be bailed out upon a crash (that they cause), or the system will disintegrate. Of course, this crash affected more countries than the US. It also caused tens of millions of people to lose their homes abroad. The total number of people affected is in the billions (the majority of whom are also experiencing wage “stagnation” - shifting profits to the top). Did the government (and the corporations that run it), who run on working class money now use working class money to help out/restructure the debt of the working class so that houses would be kept by that class in the end? Of course not. They bailed out Wall Street, took those houses and gave it to the banks (as did other governments to their bankers across the world), and in the US, did not criminally charge any of them (apart from a single guy - a low hanging fruit who was not involved in creating these toxic financial products. Why? you’d ask. Because they claimed that would harm confidence in the banking system (and the Justice Department agreed) - by the way, guess what sort of prison that guy, and the financial elite go to? The type where their standard of living are still superior to yours). Meaning, they are literally above the law. And even if every once in a while a token one is paraded around, they get to go on a nice vacation for a while. There is a lot more to cover in this section, e.g. he also repealed the fairness doctrine. Where mainstream (corporate) media had to cover a variety of viewpoints. Which essentially turned most news networks into nothing but propaganda machines.

  And lastly, (even though there’s a lot more), Reagan also greatly advanced the police state and private prison system via the war on drugs. He also used the CIA to pump black communities with drugs to do several things, one, to fill prisons with black people, and two, to raise funds for the fascist forces in Nicaragua (whom congress outlawed the funding of), with the purpose of defeating the overwhelmingly supported leftist reforms - I have no idea how freedom, liberty, nor democracy can be claimed when fascist military dictatorships are couped to instate, funded and enforced abroad.

  To prevent such abuses, in my opinion, direct democracies are a great solution. Where you actually get to vote on policies rather than only on so called representatives. This is what that would look like: https://youtu.be/ZeP9LdbJj8M (part 1) and https://youtu.be/wWBIkko8Yaw (part 2)

  Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All - Craig Shirley, Fred Barnes
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  NantanLupan
  March 31st, 2023
  

  Not a book for me, but thank you for sharing all the same.
  In my opinion Reagan was a criminal and a puppet who helped lay the ground work that led to the eventual election of that egotistical, narcissistic, scam artist and successful super criminal, the grand orange oomph loompa, we all love to hate. tRump. God help us all if he should ever be re-elected.
  Mark my words,we will never see another free election if he does.

  Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All - Craig Shirley, Fred Barnes
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  integspec
  March 29th, 2024
  

  

  A despicable face every time one is forced to see it!

  Reagan's Revolution: The Untold Story of the Campaign That Started It All - Craig Shirley, Fred Barnes

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