Robert Reich: "Americans are waking up. A grand reckoning awaits us"

[duckworth969]

“…over the last 40 years, starting with Ronald Reagan, the US went off the rails: deregulation, privatization, free trade, wild gambling by Wall Street, union-busting, monopolization, record levels of inequality, stagnant wages for most, staggering wealth for a few, big money taking over our politics.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/dec/29/american-reckoning

The election of Ronnie Raygun is one of the worst things to ever happen to our country.

[bucolic_frolic]

1. 1980 began a system of skimming wealth off the masses for the benefit of the few

It's left us broke.

[Volaris]

3. Its also the entire life story of the current WH occupant.

'How we got here' is a pretty direct line from Nixon, and it ENTIRELY includes Ronnie's 'counter-revolution' economic lunacy.

Trump is just the culmination of DECADES of political-economic Republican Party sociopathy; so is the illusion of Family Values that got sold as part of the package.

[Fiendish Thingy]

2. Great article- I recommend reading the whole thing

It rejects defeatist doomerism and embraces the power of the people.