Dems would agree with this. How can ReThugs possibly defend it?

[paleotn]

23. It did exist. I'm living proof. So are my sibs.

Mom stayed home. Dad worked and was a proud member of the CWA for 30+. We weren't rich but the thought of where our next meal was coming from or the roof over our heads was alien to our minds. In the summer, we went on vacation, usually off to see relatives. Seemingly endless hours on Ike's interstates, in the back seat, annoying my older sister. Not everyone lived like that back then, certainly, but a lot of Americans did. A whole hell of a lot more Americans than pre-WW2.

We had little overseas competition as the rest of the world recovered from the devastation of WW2. We were an economic monster the world had never seen, primed by gigantic WW2 stimulus spending. We were in a golden age for America. We were granted a unique opportunity as a people. We remade American society post WW2 to 1970. We had the resources and economic power to go even further in living up to our nation's creed, but then we stopped and then we squandered it.

And then Reagan came along. And then it was over. Wages stagnated. American industry had become complacent and bloated, losing it's edge. Greed became good. Taxes were "reformed." US industry was hollowed out for a quick buck. The golden age ended with whiny Americans, spouting Reagan's simple, stupid mantras, and caring only for themselves. And voting in ways diametrically opposed to their own interests. And here we are.