Saturday, August 20, 2011
REMEMBER WHEN PRES. OBAMA SAID THAT PRES. REAGAN
was a transformative figure? I was one of many who didn't like this at all but I stumbled on a chart that does make Pres. Obama's claim seem reasonable (but not the GOP). You can read more about polarization here.
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Well, without going into any comparative Reagan analysis, I can tell you components of what caused the polarization's current crystallization, seemingly unexplained by Sullivan in your cite.
An unpopular quagmired war exposed
as deceitfully prompted. A bankster-driven economic Collapse.
An populist angry tea party orginally sparked to punish the criminals but now largely diverted into corporatist anti-union, anti-worker cul de sacs, which if anything leans toward deregulating High Finance even further. And being very ambivalent on war policy.
Oh, and to modify polarization, the Herculean task, if any non-elite ever gets around to it, of rebuilding the manufacturing base, outsourced by both parties' elites, but which a recovery might well hinge on its reconstitution.
Ken,
I was drawn to the apparent fact that the GOP started to become crazier when Raygun was elected.
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