Posted on 09/20/2013 5:03:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Although good jobs were hard to find, I recall the 1970’s as an era in which the economy continued to expand, at least in California.
Well, Reagan was governor during the first half of the decade of the 70’s. Then in 1975, Governor Moonbeam took over and put in place the policies that made California what it is today ( and now California is suffering the same Karma once again... HE’S BACK !!! I hate to see what the golden state will look like a decade from now ).
The marxist progression is to first eliminate the “bourgeoisie,” what we would call the Middle Class. That is accomplished by devaluing its defining institutions, siphoning off its money through taxes and redistribution, and aligning the prevailing culture against it through repeated denigration and scorn.
The next step is to set the proletariat — the Underclass — at war with the bourgeoisie through class envy and exaggeration of their differences. The goal is the destruction of the inertial Middle Class that historically has offered the greatest resistance to change.
Then the discontented, seething masses can be easily directed to attack the last remaining bastions of wealth: the Capitalists. Strikes, government takeovers, and onerous regulation mark this stage, until private enterprise has been virtually eliminated in the name of “fairness.”
At that point, the pretense is dropped and the government steps in and nationalizes everything, redistributing the collective wealth “unto each according to his need.”
You figure out what stage America is in now.
Jerry Brown’s political career was aided by the GOP’s choice of poor candidates to oppose him.
In 1974, after Lieutenant Governor Ed Reinecke was convicted of a Watergate-related charge by an all-black, all-Democrat jury—a charge that was later overturned—the GOP chose Senator Houston Flournoy (R-Pomona) as its gubernatorial standard bearer. Flournoy, a liberal big-government Republican who boasted of having given California a full-time legislature was smoked by Brown.
In 1978, Republican voters chose as their candidate Los Angeles County DA Evelle Younger, another liberal who opposed the popular Proposition 13 property tax limitation initiative and supported California Supreme Court Chief Justice Rose Bird, a flaming liberal judicial activist heartily hated by vast numbers of Californians. Brown had now trouble winning re-election.
There is no comparison to the 70’s and today. This country and the world are in an economic pickle as well as the US being as divided as it was just prior to the CW.
Really? I remember financing a new car with great credit and the best interest rate I could find was 22%. A mortgage was 18%.
The price of gas tripled almost over night..gas lines remember them..how about driving at the double nickel and truckers calling ineffective strikes in protest of prices. The military was weak and demoralized because of the Dims weakness..remember the rescue in the desert going up in smoke..and the loss of brave Americans..the hostages and the humiliation of the US.
The difference was back then the demographics of the country made the election of a conservative a cinch in 1980..I'm not particularly hopeful it will be the same in 2016 but its possible if Obama and the Dims continue to be afraid ..
Unfortunately, most today can only cry how bad things are and have no sense of history to really evaluate were we are today compared to earlier times. It doesn't help that the political leaders of both parties for the most part are fools only interested in getting elected and reelected.
I think things can and probably will get waaay worse than in the 70’s but realistically we have a long way to go to get there.
The 70’s were pretty bad.
The only thing that was more hopeful is that far more of the electorate supported traditional American values, and was capable of demonstrating a modicum of common sense.
A majority of Under 30’s tell pollsters they’re open to the idea of chucking capitalism. The future looks bleak indeed.
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