• @SlopppyEngineer@lemmy.world
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        Very roughly, you had liberalism until that crashed in the 1930 with the Great Depression.

        Capitalism was rebooted with social liberalism to include welfare, education, healthcare. In the seventies that ran aground in stagflation. Rich people didn’t like investing anymore as the profits weren’t big enough to their liking with all that welfare. Then came the oil crisis and that killed it completely.

        The system was rebooted again with a tweaked form of liberalism, so that’s now neoliberalism. It repeats all the mistakes of that past, slowly salami slices welfare and healthcare away, chips away at all the safeguards and then crashes again in 2008 with financial crisis.

        After that, the system was basically resuscitated, pumped full of money to keep it going and now we see how long it lasts before something really bad happens. Welfare, education and healthcare are turning into dust for most people so something going to give.

      • @toddestan@lemm.ee
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        65 months ago

        I didn’t see it in a quick scroll through on that page, but I’d assume the answer has something to do with this.

      • FuglyDuck
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        5 months ago

        could be coincidence, but Biden started on a county council in 1970, and first got elected to the US senate in 1972.

        I suspect a lot of the, uh “old guard” entered politics around the same time.

        • prole
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          5 months ago

          Lol yeah dude, this is all Joe Biden’s fault, and it goes back to his very first job in politics on… checks notes… *County fucking Council."

          Who said brain rot is an exclusively conservative trait?

          • FuglyDuck
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            25 months ago

            Yeah. That’s not what I said.

            Nor was it my point.

            Biden was just an easy and ready-to-mind example of several very old politicians who have been in office for a very long time- on both sides the isle.

            Congrats on proving the brain rot, though.