re: #103 Targetpractice

Not only can we now look forward to deficit and debt becoming part of the election as Donny tries to insist that he’s gonna spur huge economy growth while Biden has to bite the bullet and admit taxes will have to go up for Americans, but we can also look forward to wingnuts insisting (as they did with Dubya) that the tax cuts were on course to pay for themselves before COVID-19 happened and the Dems forced a massive bailout on the Repubs.

What I have been pondering recently is whether the US can be stabilized after the current fiasco. If so, I fear that we are in for more waves of destabilization by a very destructive right wing.

I am wondering whether some final wave of destruction will cause such damage to our current post-WW2 institutions that we will require a generational reset on the order of the Civil War or the New Deal.

Why are they doing this? Because it pays. Look at the chart of wealth distribution posted in an earlier thread. The ultra-wealthy have been attacking the Post-Great Depression New Deal since Ronald Reagan. And doing it quite successfully.