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BlueTsunami2018

(5,107 posts)
34. Yep, the ruling class took over completely from that point.
Thu Jun 4, 2026, 05:31 PM
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Doesn’t really matter who was in power, we just continued to keep creeping further and further to the right economically and in foreign policy. Policies that destroyed the industrial base and middle class just kept coming and the imperialism never stopped without the People benefitting a single bit from any of it. Union market share has declined continuously, bank deregulation and tax cuts turned us from a bottom up economy to this trickle down horseshit economy we still maintain to this day.

And it only gets worse from here. Americans have been conditioned so well to accept these things that are horrible for them as the “natural order of humanity” that there doesn’t seem to be any way to reverse them by conventional means.

We’re well and truly fucked. And we’ve done it to ourselves.

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Then we topped the whole decade off with Kent State. The 60s were truly over. Walleye Thursday #2
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Kennedy and KS azureblue Thursday #43
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This still makes me misty Dave in VA Thursday #42
Me too azureblue Thursday #44
I have been saying that the younger generation is angry with us and disappointed Walleye Thursday #49
Damn! These onions...! slightlv Thursday #50
the creep Butterflies Yesterday #60
Yes! Thats the one slightlv Yesterday #63
Message auto-removed Name removed Yesterday #64
It may make you misty. It makes me ANGRY. johnnyfins Thursday #51
Yeah. electric_blue68 Yesterday #55
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When they let Nixon skate for the good of the country. Blue Full Moon Thursday #12
I think the assassination of MLK, Jr. had even more impact. yardwork Thursday #5
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I will disagree with that. Most of the delegates were chosen in the backroom rurallib Thursday #16
What? llmart Thursday #41
no mokeyz Thursday #23
I agree. intheflow Thursday #28
It did, azureblue Thursday #45
The assassinations of JFK, MLK and RFK were Farmer-Rick Thursday #52
I was just a kid Skittles Yesterday #54
I felt that way at the time.. mountain grammy Thursday #7
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Was it Eastern or Pacific time? 12:31AM or 12:32? Chasstev365 Thursday #13
Sixties Peak unweird Thursday #9
That would be a great topic for a time travel story Unwind Your Mind Thursday #10
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Yes! Chasstev365 Thursday #15
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Regean azureblue Thursday #46
..... markie Thursday #17
😢 Chasstev365 Thursday #18
I was getting ready to post that song. wnylib Thursday #33
Wow...disappointing! electric_blue68 Thursday #35
That was a bad day for me BeneteauBum Thursday #19
My family and I watched the '68 DNC on vacation... electric_blue68 Yesterday #57
The 1971 Powell Memo finished kicking us off the cliff. Ralph Nader's assessment of what we've lost. jmbar2 Thursday #20
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Yup! mokeyz Thursday #22
I remember it all..... 😔 electric_blue68 Thursday #24
Thanks for sharing your vivid memories of those horrible times. erronis Thursday #31
Oh, hey, thanks. electric_blue68 Thursday #32
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I am willing to be contrarian on this point. NNadir Thursday #27
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Thats the date i felt i left my childhood behind. slightlv Thursday #37
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*Sigh* NBachers Thursday #39
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and this is why azureblue Thursday #48
Is that George Plimpton in the train window at the 2:25 mark? RPM Thursday #53
There was a whole movie of footage made about that train.... electric_blue68 Yesterday #59
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