General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: To those DU'ers who lived through the "Golden Age of Capitalism" (1940s to 1970s)-some questions... [View all]MisterP
(23,730 posts)has come into the mainstream (suburbanites are the ones stockpiling against the "hip-hop genocide" about to be committed Any Day Now--also why they're against public transit)
with the New Right we have 1) a national-level vocal religious right, 2) neocons who blamed Vietnam's loss on students and Congressional investigations: these are the Team B folks from 1976, the new Cold Warriors who Bush II picked for Iraq, and 3) industrial capitalism turned to finance capitalism under Reagan (or post-1979 Carter) and all four of his successors: corporate think tanks and their astroturf right-libertarian movements have successfully redefined "freedom" as deregulation while CIA plants claimed that
each of these also throws up frankly diseased Glenn Becks and Alex Joneses to tell us that bike paths are the prologue to emptying the Rockies of human habitation and handing it over to UN oligarchs: these are used to pressure the Establishment's center wing to moving further right ("quick, pass the Heritage Foundation's insurance plan or who knows *what* the Teabaggers rioting in your auditoria will do" ; the Jones types throw up chaff, spreading 5 obviously false theories for every honest suspicious event (it's the same MO as Nancy Grace: she thinks *everyone's* guilty)