PugJesus@lemmy.world to Comic Strips@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoThe past is such a wonderful place!lemmy.worldexternal-linkmessage-square61fedilinkarrow-up1868arrow-down124
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minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·2 months agootoh, that’s when the economy started crashing… [jk, I can do two hours on how Nixon’s Vietnam War spending and Reaganomics destroyed the middle class. I just can’t resist a good set-up line]
minus-squareQueen HawlSera@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 months agoI will never understand how they sold starving people on the idea of giving all their food to the biggest glutton in the village in order to feed off the crumbs he won’t leave behind.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·2 months agoA lot of Americans went crazy after the US lost the war in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan offered them a return to a happier time, when everything made sense.
otoh, that’s when the economy started crashing…
[jk, I can do two hours on how Nixon’s Vietnam War spending and Reaganomics destroyed the middle class. I just can’t resist a good set-up line]
I will never understand how they sold starving people on the idea of giving all their food to the biggest glutton in the village in order to feed off the crumbs he won’t leave behind.
A lot of Americans went crazy after the US lost the war in Vietnam. Ronald Reagan offered them a return to a happier time, when everything made sense.