Is the Reagan Devolution finally totally discredited?

Julius S asked:


I’m thinking about the way things have gone in the last 30 years or so, since the Reagan Devolution; where culture, arts, programs for early childhood and the poor, and humanities were laughed at as extravagances, and promoting the bland values of the world corporate community became paramount where Greed is Good was its motto. Our society was not just changed; the sense of an America that cared about people, creativity, even science and inventiveness, was destroyed. Following upon Reagan’s heels, Newt Gingrich sealed a decade of backward movement for working people and the middle class, and the programs and institutions that were their lifeblood. Instead of promoting new areas for jobs, education, training and opportunity, government was crippled and directed towards the increased support for the wealthiest Americans. Those who had based their businesses in the U.S. were encouraged to go overseas and become world citizens – tax-free money-makers without a country, and were rewarded for it. The Reagan Devolution and the Gingrich Congress directly opened the door for a future President – one with limited intelligence and vision but with the power of the oil and corporate franchises behind him, to rise up and become a puppet for the greediest and most powerful among us. That President was of course George W. Bush, our past petty dictator. I look forward to the day when an intelligent, cultured, sympathetic and broadly caring President takes the helm of our country in conjunction with a committed and broad-based Progressive Congress with a newly inspired progressive movement, they will reshape our laws to reflect real American values – ones that are directed towards people who are trying to make a living and raise their families under difficult conditions and not skewed in favor of the already-wealthy and the corporate interests. It is time that we realized the promise that this country glimpsed in the ’60s and ’70s of a truly open and caring culture, and that we lost under Reagan and his political spawn starting in the ’80s.
Obviously Barack Obama has yet to address the Reagan Devolution’s Culture of Corruption since so many Bushivick holdovers are still in place: Timothy Geithner, Bob Gates, Robert Mueller, et al. If Barack Obama were serious about driving a stake into the heart of the Reagan Devolution, he would advocate for criminal prosecution of those corrupt Democratic and Republican politicians that aided and abetted the most egregious crimes of the last 30 years (of course those still within the statute of limitations).

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