Thom Hartmann: Are We Going To Be The Flintstones OR The Jetsons?

[thomhartmann]

America could be living like the Jetsons - but because of President Regan we're stuck in the Stone Age with the Flintstone.

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[Deep13]

1. Both families were happy.

The whiggish, progressive narrative of history is extremely problematic. History is not a slow, steady climb from the backward old days to shining modernity. Most of the intractable problems we now have are the products of modernity: constant war, ethnic and religious hatred, dispossession, global poverty, pandemic disease, institutional misogyny, and mass exploitation of all varieties.

[PNW_Dem]

5. Globalization also reduced real wages for Americans

Thom Hartman’s comments mostly make sense here except that he overlooked one major factor. The figures and statistics that he mentions regarding the 1960’s were mostly prior to a globalized world. Ronald Reagan’s poor economic policy certainly undermined the wealth of the middle class, but so did globalization. Other than good trade policy, there isn’t much that we can do about globalization, but we can try to affect tax policy. K&R if you hate Reagan's legacy

[defacto7]

2. Looking at humanity as a graph on a global time scale

the line goes practically vertical out of nowhere. I would imagine the line could drop at a 90ᵒ angle just as easily.

We will be neither of those happy family analogies. Our hope as a successful and long lived organism on this planet pretty much ended with the destruction and decline of ancient Greece. By the beginning of the common era we were destined to be dust blowing over the rim of a dry canyon. Everything else was just a roller coaster ride.

[Deep13]

6. How did it all hinge on Greece? nt

[L0oniX]

3. Smurfs and Noids.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

4. Republicans make typical Americans poor and then tell them we can't afford to build stuff....

Meanwhile:



Eventually America will wake up to the deception.