I wrote: > it's a very good video! but I was amused by the idea that opposition > to Ralph Nader mobilized the gazillionaires during the 1970s to take > over politics, etc. He may have been symbolic of they hated then, but > we should also remember the steep fall in average profitability going > from the 1960s into the 1970s. That plus inflation (which initially > hurts those with money) helped create the "Volcker-Reagan" policy > revolution (that started under Carter, BTW) and all that followed. And > to some extent, these folks were backed by white men (even of the > working class) who felt threatened by the civil rights movement, > feminism, etc.
I wanted to add that even though the Koch brothers and similar plutocrats helped fuel the Tea Party, it also represents a standard form of petty-bourgeois discontent. Though this movie is accurate, it leaves out a lot of the structural dimensions of the problem, to focus on individual actors. It also missed the role of the mainstream media as cheerleaders. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
