alphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 11 days agoSometimes You Don’t Get to Have Elders. In Their Place, Vicious Old People.lemmy.worldimagemessage-square55fedilinkarrow-up1674arrow-down126
arrow-up1648arrow-down1imageSometimes You Don’t Get to Have Elders. In Their Place, Vicious Old People.lemmy.worldalphanerd4@lemmy.worldM to US Authoritarianism@lemmy.world · 11 days agomessage-square55fedilink
minus-squaredanc4498@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up9·11 days agoI definitely thought things were fucked when I was in my 20s (Bush 2.0 era). Today I blame Reagan, though.
minus-squareByteOnBikes@slrpnk.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·11 days agoAnd every day, I wonder how the timeline looks if John Hinckley Jr. was a better shooter.
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up1·11 days agoPretty much the same. Hinkley kills Reagan and Bush Sr. wins his election big the same way LBJ was pushed in by the post-Kennedy wave. Hell, Bush would have given Nancy a Cabinet post
minus-squareDagwood222@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up3·11 days agoWhen Reagan came in , ‘middle class’ was still one job supporting a family of four. In those days, $1 million was a vast personal fortune. By the time Bush Sr. was out, middle class was two incomes to run the family, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.
I definitely thought things were fucked when I was in my 20s (Bush 2.0 era). Today I blame Reagan, though.
And every day, I wonder how the timeline looks if John Hinckley Jr. was a better shooter.
Pretty much the same.
Hinkley kills Reagan and Bush Sr. wins his election big the same way LBJ was pushed in by the post-Kennedy wave.
Hell, Bush would have given Nancy a Cabinet post
When Reagan came in , ‘middle class’ was still one job supporting a family of four. In those days, $1 million was a vast personal fortune.
By the time Bush Sr. was out, middle class was two incomes to run the family, and $1 million was what a rich guy paid for a party.