• mcv@lemmy.zip
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    2 days ago

    This post sounds superficially like it’s trying to justify conservatism, but that bleak economic reality is caused by conservatism.

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      Eisenhower was conservative and ushered in the 50s economic boom. pretty sure the world was much more conservative in the 50/60s, weird how that was such a prosperous time for the USA.

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        Eisenhower’s economic policy was perfectly in line with FDR’s New Deal and had nothing to do with the Reagan’s and Trump’s “enrich the rich” policies. His top marginal tax rate was even higher than that of other New Deal administrations: 90%!

        That economic boom did not come from racism and sexism; they had that before. It came from the New Deal.