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In reply to the discussion: To those DU'ers who lived through the "Golden Age of Capitalism" (1940s to 1970s)-some questions... [View all]KoKo
(84,711 posts)33. You mean the 80's... Oh that was a time! n/t
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To those DU'ers who lived through the "Golden Age of Capitalism" (1940s to 1970s)-some questions... [View all]
YoungDemCA
May 2013
OP
Another simple answer: government was not as deeply in the pockets the rich and corporate interests.
geckosfeet
May 2013
#2
Don't fall for the postmortem hype. He was a greedy, stupid man who drove a marginal company into
Egalitarian Thug
May 2013
#81
Good Point...many of us didn't know about "Powell Memo" until it got some attention pretty recently
KoKo
May 2013
#95
No, that was the eighties. No shoulder pads--or epaulettes--in the seventies. No "messy" or
MADem
May 2013
#78
You mean when a middle class family could live on a single median salary?
MannyGoldstein
May 2013
#29
FDR was the most powerful man in the USA. Obvious. Even he acknowledged that John L. Lewis was
byeya
May 2013
#11
"if it really was such a great time, what were the late 60s/early 70s massive social movements for?"
HiPointDem
May 2013
#21
Everyone thinks that things were simpler when they were a child. That's at least
Squinch
May 2013
#27
The Gladys Knight Version of "The Way We Were" is visually incredible..and the voice
KoKo
May 2013
#48
I don't really know much of anything we can quantify of what we have these days...
KoKo
May 2013
#50
Is this for your dissertation? Good God, there are library STACKS devoted to these questions.
WinkyDink
May 2013
#65
In every historical account save those concocted by capitalist douchebags, this era is called
alcibiades_mystery
May 2013
#71
I was going to post something similar but you've said it better. Basically it was a time when
byeya
May 2013
#89