• ansiz@lemmy.world
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    This has been the full steam ahead plan since Reagan at least. You can see the social programs and reforms done by LBJ in the late 60s and some of the things Nixon did like the EPA. If I’m not mistaken Nixon then flirted with a government healthcare Medicare for all plan but it didn’t get far.

    Since then it’s just been naked class warfare, capitalist pillaging, and wealth accumulation for the 0.1%.

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      This was before my time, so it’s always interesting to read about Nixon and see that he was way to the left of the current Democrats and saw a lot of positive things happen under his terms. He’s remembered as a crook and a boogeyman, but by modern day standards, the Watergate scandal would barely even raise an eyebrow.

      How times have changed.