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Chapter 22, titled, “Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago?

“Rules Made to Benefit the Wealthy Are Now More Important Than Life”

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(published 10/2022)

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CW22Q 22/1

Quotes/Highlights THREAD

Fr *Culture War Class War 2022:

*Truth & Generations*

by Michael Adzema

(available on website, as wells as a free pdf file, & on Amazon in print & ebook, as of Oct 2022)

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CW22Q 22/2

“[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…these days you have the attitude, ‘A dollar laid is a dollar played’; people’s suffering is irrelevant to the game.” []

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CW22 22/3

“[*Quotes/highlights:*] “…these days you have the attitude, ‘A dollar laid is a dollar played’; people’s suffering is irrelevant to the game.” []

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CW22Q 22/4

[] “We have seen a lot of change over the last five decades. & many new thoughts have become truisms that are actually not true. In the real world they’re nonsensical.” []

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CW22Q 22/5

[] “Unfortunately, they abound because of the cultural change initiated by Ronald Reagan that lowered the standard of living for everyone except for the rich who were the beneficiaries of that switch.” []

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CW22 22/6

[] “It was the greatest shift of money upward, to the higher classes, in history, at that time. George W. Bush, after the millennium, outdid him though. Then Trump doubled down on what Bush arranged to be granted the wealthy.” []

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CW22Q 22/7

[] “Voodoo economics gradually brought the highest marginal rate of taxes down below 30% from the 70% it had been when Reagan took office. This should be compared with the 90-some % it was under Democratic & Republican presidents—” []

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CW22Q 22/8

[] “—Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, & Kennedy—in the 1940s through 1963. Reaganomics took corporate tax rates down to forty percent from the fifty percent that it had been previous to that beginning in the Forties.”[]

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CW22 22/9

[] “…the last time, previous to Reagan, that marginal tax rates were below forty percent was in the Twenties, prior to the Great Depression.” []

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CW22Q 22/10

[] “Not coincidentally at that same time, preceding the Depression, corporate tax rates were also at their lowest & were down in the teens.” []

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CW22Q 22/11

[] “History records how well those low corporate & private marginal rates worked out. This did not stop the Reaganites from opting to repeat the previous debacle.” []

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CW22 22/12

[] “…this bonanza for the rich—along with union-busting & other anti-worker practices by Reagan—had the effect of gradually lowering the standard of living for the vast majority of Americans.” []

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CW22Q 22/13

[] “The result could not have been more ironic. These pro-capitalist, fervid anti-communist Republicans like Reagan & his supporters began the process that would make us mirror images of Soviet Russia in several hugely important ways.” []

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CW22Q 22/14

[] “Reaganomics brought in the two-salary family.” []

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CW22 22/15

[] “The anti-communist Reaganites also brought in institutional childcare, for now this was needed because both parents were working. Someone had to take care of the children, & they would begin that at earlier & earlier ages.” []

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CW22Q 22/16

[]“Reagan’s economic policies pushed Americans into a lower standard of living—fooling them in all kinds of ways that this was not the case—which was evident in major changes in American culture which mirrored that of the Soviets…”[]

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CW22Q 22/17

[] “…such as the virtual requirement of two-salary families & along with that the necessity of childcare outside the family at earlier & earlier years.” []

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CW22 22/18

[] “Yet these Soviet-like changes did not also bring with them Communist benefits of job security, free child & medical care, guaranteed lifelong support, & so on.” []

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CW22Q 22/19

[] “…after Reagan instituted ‘voodoo economics,’ with prices on health care & pharmaceuticals going through the roof along with the sudden unexpected increases of other necessities of life,..” []

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CW22Q 22/20

[]“…you had that lowered standard of living we have now become accustomed to for the great majority of Americans. You had a population that was poorer, in relative terms,& got increasingly poorer.”[]

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CW22 22/21

[] “The records show that Americans achieved a peak of affluence in the Sixties & that since then, & rapidly accelerating since the Eighties, we have been on a downward slide.” []

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CW22Q 22/22

[] “…ever since Reagan determined that ketchup qualified as a vegetable serving, I have noticed this public stinginess about food.” []

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CW22Q 22/23

[] “I could hardly believe the happenings in this Oliver Twist world.” []

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CW22 22/24

[]“My heart went out to those young boys who—in this once wealthy land & still surrounded by plenty in this post-millennial, rich suburban CA—stood near the kitchen w plate in hand, thr eyes pleading if they might ‘please have some more.’””[]

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CW22Q 22/25

[]“The epidemics of obesity & diabetes in our country attest to how much worse is the nutrition for young folks today.” []

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CW22Q 22/26

[] “…we passed universal health care ‘coverage’...not care. Everyone has to be insured does not mean everyone gets taken care of.” []

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CW22 22/27

[]“…health care that is delayed, rationed out, or cut back & denied for certain conditions can be just as much a death sentence as being turned away at a hospital door.” []

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CW22Q 22/28

[] “‘We can’t afford to keep you alive (we’ve got tax cuts for the rich to pay for).’ So they did. They died.” []

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CW22Q 22/29

[] “Republicans clamored about ‘death panels’ in opposing health-care legislation; then promptly implemented one as soon as they could after it was passed.” []

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CW22 22/30

[] “I felt like I was in a scene from the movie *Soylent Green*, wondering where they were taking this one who had fallen by the wayside.” []

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CW22Q 22/31

[] “The unwritten rule is, ‘You’re asking for health care at a discount!? Well, *we’ll make you pay...one way or the other, DAMN you*!’ []

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CW22Q 22/32

[] “You don’t think this attitude trickles down to the masses from policy on high?” []

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CW22 22/33

[] “Well, you tell me what the policy makers of the 1% are thinking when they say they are going to ‘starve the beast’ of government...continually cut back funds for government services...as a back-door way of making government smaller.” []

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CW22Q 22/34

[] “Just who do they imagine is really that ‘beast’? & why use the word, ‘starve’? Yes, the ‘beast’ of the masses, the riff-raff, is being ‘starved’—” []

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CW22Q 22/35

[] “[Yes, the ‘beast’ of the masses, the riff-raff, is being ‘starved’]—being made to suffer for lack of sufficient money for systems & workers so folks can be served faster.” []

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CW22 22/36

[] “With money stretched thin for humane processing systems & employees to implement them, people are refuse...mere ‘beasts’...having to stand & suffer.
“I wonder how this is not simply a more undetectable way…” []

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CW22Q 22/37

[] “…of eliminating in America the handicapped, disabled, and/or mentally challenged than the way the Nazis did it to the same sort of ‘riff raff’ when they got to power during the time of the Third Reich.” []

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CW22Q 22/38

[] “…what is the upshot of all this? It is that many folks have to weigh getting health care in America—which is claimed to be ‘available’—against the complications & time of getting it.” []

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CW22 22/39

[] “The upshot is that many folks are weighing these costs of health care when choosing whether or not to seek help. & their decision is leaving many of these folks dead.” []

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CW22Q 22/40

[] “’Money changes everything,’ crooned Cyndi Lauper in 1983. Yet first you had Ronald Reagan who redistributed America’s money to benefit the already super rich. This affected the values of America’s citizens.” []

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CW22Q 22/41

[] “Where once we believed in brotherly love, ‘kumbaya,’ helping the poor, lifting up the needy … ‘Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore’.…” []

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CW22 22/42

[] “Where once we worked & longed for a world of peace & love, now there was a compassion gap. For, with the excuse of ‘The Game,’ America’s ‘deplorables’ could flaunt their mean-spiritedness. Indeed, Reagan changes everything.” []

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CW22Q 22/43

These have been quotes/highlights from Chapter 22 of my new book,

*Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations*

which is

“A Cultural & Political Psychohistory of America from the 1950s to 2022”

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CW22Q 22/44

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CW22 22/45

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CW22Q 22/46

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CW22Q 22/47

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CW22 22/48

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CW22Q 22/49

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