[virtuous_sloth]

The fiscal-progressive nature of the New Deal earlier in the century was so successful it created the middle class in the post-war era (90% marginal tax rates!) and it was being followed up by a socially-progressive era of the civil rights movement in the 60s and the powers that be had to make a concerted effort to derail both.

The takeover of the political dialog by economism using the Freshwater/Chicago school of economics started in earnest around this time and was so remarkably successful that Democratic presidents were spouting the neo-liberal conservatism[0] hogwash by the time of Clinton.

I am a member of the Cory Doctorow school[1] of political thought.

[0] https://crookedtimber.org/2018/03/21/liberals-against-progre...

[1] https://pluralistic.net/tag/political-science/