re: #26 GeneJockey

As I think about it, their Golden Age is all concocted from historical revisionism. They want it to be the 1950s, but ignore that the very reason the 1950s were so good to so many was precisely because we put in place all kinds of regulations on banking and business, and encouraged labor organization, and established the Safety Net. They do a mashup of the 1920s and the 1950s, where regulation was the 1920’s Laissez Faire, but instead of resulting in the Great Depression, it triggers the growth of the Middle Class, and the rise of a much more affluent society.

While apparently ignoring a few other things:
1. Beginning of Russia vs US showdown where you do get to wonder in every international crisis whether things might go south and lots of nukes will start being tossed.

2. Part of US economic supremacy was that pretty much all the other industrial countries had gotten pulverized in WW2 by genuine destruction and massive war debt. So we had a lack of competition and also ready markets for goods to help them rebuild.