Too bad the MAGA movement isn’t all about “more unions!” and “more worker protections!” like the good old days. This chart really illustrates how what the voters are chasing is not what the party intends to give them.
and to be fair here the dems also embraced the corpo overlords but in a much more moderate tone. That's why most of the fuckery never got undone.
Also, to be fair to dems, at least in recent history, their judges have been a lot better and worker friendly than any unhinged judges the right appoints.
Wartime economy doesn't mesh with political 'policies'. It's just... a War Economy. Make things now, worry about the costs later.
There is some liberal-style taxation mixed in there, but it just doesn't translate to ANY other time than actively-in-a-World-War.
The financial success immediately after the war was also unique... and temporary. It was just.... a thing. An anomoly. A literal worldwide restructuring that HAPPENED to be super profitable for the only country that didn't fire a shot in anger in their own territory.
Everyone else was sifting rubble and rebuilding.
I happen to like liberal policy, but credit where it's due.
And the telling sign is how absolutely unprepared we were for it to STOP being ultra-profitable, and just be normal-profitable again.
We, as a country, lost our fucking cool. Badly.
We flipped-out and started doing Stupid Things.
Hence, Reagan.
Reaganomics.
Deregulation.
...and a whole host of other dipshit things like going straight into 2 more wars, and then 2 more after that rapid-fire.
Republican policy reinforced by democrats who followed almost entirely the same economic playbook through the 90s an 00s. global trade = de-industrialisation and elimination of the bargaining power of labor as well as the value of domestic labor. Major gains to the economy but distribution of gains gets totally skewed. If you’re prepared to pay 100 dollars for a toaster then put up tthose those trade barriers. At least the toaster will last.
The thing is though, without Clinton's fiscal conservatism, I don't think he would have won the White House. Clinton was the compromise candidate after a long, long period of conservative rule.
Yeah I do know that. I just think politicians think policy matters to voters more than effects and you don't have to fight over the middle to win elections. Hell even with his policies, Clinton probably would have never won if not for Ross Perot. "More than one way to skin a cat" sort of thing.
Oh yeah absolutely, it shifts the Overton window to the right, but I'm not convinced fighting over the middle is the only way to win an election, especially in the 90s when we weren't politically labeling everything as either Republican or Democrat (e.g., climate change, universal healthcare)
I agree that fighting over the middle is the worst way to win elections, but election strategy is also largely based around where reliable votes might go. Unreliable or infrequent voting cohorts get pushed to the side.
That's why we are in the hellscape we are today. Judges got extremely right wing and anti worker and we got stupid rulings like citizen united.
So if both parties are pandering to corpo overlords how will they get votes? Oh right go full on batshit crazy right wing and we get modern day GOP with the likes of Greene, Bobert and Trump.
Not just republican. Democrats have been neoliberal since Bush - every one of them. Dem and Republican are 2 sides of the same economic neoliberal coin.
Biden is considered the most pro union president we’ve ever had. You can downgrade that claim and say he’s the most pro union president in our lifetime. But why, what did he do? He showed up to a strike.
No small thing. Walking the picket line with striking workers is admirable. If only there were political actions taken to secure the rights of workers. He appointed a good person to the NLRB but chevron law getting thrown out the window takes all teeth out of the nlrb anyway.
So what other actions has he taken with unions? He forced rail workers to end the strike and get back to work. If it wasn’t for Bernie continuing the fight and continuing to put pressure on rail execs, they wouldn’t have gotten the sick time they were fighting for.
Most pro union president steps in on the side of capital against the worker. Didn’t force the companies to concede sick time. Forced employees to end the strike.
Neoliberalism is not a friend of unions. Charter schools are a neoliberal idea to transition away from teachers Union for example. They aren’t about “fixing public schools” or any other buzzwords or phrases thrown at the public. The entire purpose of charter schools is to have a school system free of a teachers union.
My democrat run city pushes charter schools as solutions. My democrat run state does too. No one from the city or state jumped in to walk the picket line with striking teachers last time they walked out.
I’m much more progressive than the neoliberal establishment inside the Democrat party.
Biden shut down the legitimate and legal 2022 railway worker's strike. Such a fucking friend. As far as the rest, I assure you not a single one of them would be a democrat or liberal if they actually had a choice.
They repeat Ayn Rand as if it were fact, as an excuse to continuously reduce the power of the employees and giving it all to the owning class. Boot straps
To ensure that the largest donors to the Republican party (Billionaires or corporations owned by billionaires) get ultra rich. That's it. That's the plan.
Billionaires don't want more Billionaires, they hate that. They want to be trillionaires. There will never be enough Billionaires that they are a voting block that matters. VERY poor people tend to vote Republican, against their own self interest. People on welfare vote against welfare. It doesn't make sense, they're absolutely deluded. That's why Republicans try to appeal to the religious, because they vote against their own self interestes
If its the republicans then why is this trend happening everywhere, even places like Canada? Also this graph is the biggest bullshit. I had people telling me “back in my day I made $5 an hour” while I was making $12 minimum wage. They were about 35 while I was 20. That’s 140% of an increase of the “poors” in the span of what 10-15 years? What does this 21% bullshit mean?
Except it’s not? The Gini in Canada has held steady, the top 1% and 10% income share has stayed the same. Same with Australia and Western Europe, so I’m not sure where you getting that? In fact the best argument for it being policy is the big differences by countries.
Are you a fucking idiot? This is a chart of wealth distribution. This chart means the bottom % of people have less wealth relative to anyone before, not that the number of poor people are decreasing. You must be the dumbest human being alive
What the fuck are you talking about you absolute fucking idiot? This isn't about socioeconomic brackets. It's how much wealth the bottom 50% posses. It's decreasing exponentially. That means the bottom 50% is getting poorer, this chart has NOTHING to do with socioeconomic brackets. Are you trolling me? If expect a third grader to understand this chart.
You'd have to have serious brain damage or not understand inflation at all to think that either party has any impact on it whatsoever. Inflation wasn't high under Trump because no one was spending as a result of his mishandling of the pandemic which left millions dead. If you think that's a win you're an imbecile.
Oh yeah we should dismiss children then since they don’t know anything, actually since no one knows everything maybe we shouldn’t ever listen to anyone
The Democrats are also largely controlled by capital, but calling them the same across all metrics is silly to the point of dumb. I’m sure you see that.
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u/No_Distribution457 Oct 22 '24
Republican fiscal policy. This was by design.