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For some of our population, the green line has been in a very rough place for a very long time. If anything it's only gone up for some people since WW2, despite recent setbacks. Still a long way to go, but I have a feeling there are more than a few families who are looking out at the US in disarray right now and shrugging because it's always been like this for them.
Well, it did look like things were getting better. The civil rights act was a move in the right direction, and then you had diversity initiatives and you could be excused for thinking that things would actually be better. And then Reagan stepped in and started undoing all the wins, focusing first on breaking Unions and Labor rights, which hurt minority most, but eventually fucked everyone.
I might include Nixon on the graph too.
Why? He wasn't even a crook.
I mean, he SAID he wasn't a crook, and by today's standards of critical thought, that's an ironclad defense. Right up there with "Nuh uh" and "Your mom."
You won't have Nixon to put in graphs anymore!
I'd start with Truman. His involvement with the Korean war set the US president of constant proxy wars
But is the Dow Jones Industrial Average over 50,000?
It is not
Good thing should go up post WW2. The fall at Reagan is correct though.
People don't even know why. That's how good the propaganda is today..
Fareed Zakaria proposed that the end of the Cold War meant America no longer had to make capitalism appear to be better for working people than communism so stopped pretending.
I.e., back to the coal mines and debtors’ prisons of the Industrial Revolution.
The X axis is clearly time. “Some metric” ought to be on the Y axis.
"Intensity of thing"?
Graph maker forgot about segregation and the CIAs global war on socialism
Americans according to Americans. Pretty sure a lot of people had issue with Ronnie’s handling of AIDS and corporate tax cuts
Reagan's handlers opened the door to corporate raiding which was devastating to working people.
according to white, straight, cis male Americans with money and inherited property
ftfy a lil' more
It started with Nixon, though (arguably before, but not in pop-psy). Reagan should be the point of convergence.
Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos, Indonesia, East Timor, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Nagasaki, Hiroshima, slavery, native American genocide, Hay market massacre, Palestine etc etc strongly call into question the shape of this graph. Should be a lot flatter.
I've seen less accurate, you're good 😅
I was looking at some other data and saw a lot of corrections around 2016. Go figure.