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I might include Nixon on the graph too.
Why? He wasn't even a crook.
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.
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.