Thread by @sillymickel

This is a threaded version of Chapter 22:

“Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago?

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

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

by Michael Adzema

THREAD sillymickel.blogspot.com/2017/10/cultur… #history #Blue

CW22 22/1

“[*Chapter 22 text begins:*] So these days you have the attitude, “A dollar laid is a dollar played”; people’s suffering is irrelevant to the game.”

THREAD wp.me/p1C4cs-2HP #history #Blue #economics #Reagan #80s #politics #resist #Republicans #Reaganomics #60s

CW22 22/2

“*Foolin’ the People About History*

“*Obvious “Truths”:*

“*Reagan “saved” America.* [untrue truism]

“*Reagan rescued Americans from an oppressive tax burden.* [untrue truism]

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CW22 22/3

“*Reagan brought down the Iron Curtain, the Soviets, Berlin Wall. [untrue truism]*”

“*In America we were far better off than the Soviets were because…

“We are the richest country in the world. In America we only get better.* [untrue truism]

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CW22 22/4

“*Reagan’s Great Ruse*

“Need I say the above are all accepted as truth, tho not true? We have seen a lot of change over the last 5 decades. & many new thoughts have become truisms that are actually not true. In the real world thr nonsensical.”

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CW22 22/5

“*The Eighties Changed Everything...The Great Swindle

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CW22 22/6

“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 22/7

“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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CW22 22/8

“The Republicans pulled off this transfer of wealth under the banner of capitalism. The huge tax cuts for the seriously rich, which was how this relocation of money was accomplished, began with Reagan.”

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CW22 22/9

“When [Reaganomics] was proposed during the 1980 presidential race Bush the Elder called it “voodoo economics.” This was before he was invited on the ticket with Reagan.”

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CW22 22/10

“Voodoo economics gradually brought the highest marginal rate of taxes down below 30% from the 70 percent it had been when Reagan took office.”

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CW22 22/11

“This should be compared with the ninety-some percent it was under Democratic & Republican presidents—Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, & Kennedy—in the 1940s through 1963.”

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CW22 22/12

“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 22/13

“Keep in mind that these were times—Forties through Sixties—when America’s economy boomed, turning the U.S. into the wealthiest country in the world.”

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CW22 22/14

“Remember also that 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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CW22 22/15

“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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CW22 22/16

“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 22/17

“*The Face of the Enemy, Ours*

“Overall, 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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CW22 22/18

“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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CW22 22/19

“*At One Time, “Women Don’t Have to Work”; At Another, “Women Are Free to Work”*

“Reaganomics brought in the two-salary family. This had been one of those major propaganda points for the anti-communists in the Fifties:”

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CW22 22/20

“We were horrified finding out that behind the Iron Curtain *both* parents had to have jobs to support their family.”

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CW22 22/21

“It was thrown out as one of the ways we were superior in our capitalist way of life—American wives & mothers did not have to work & were able to spend their time instead raising the children.”

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CW22 22/22

“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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CW22 22/23

“*At One Time, “Strangers Take Care of Their Kids”;

"At Another, “Child Care Teaches Social Skills & Enhances Multicultural Awareness”*

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CW22 22/24

“Again, extramural child care was one of those elements of Soviet life that in the Fifties was pointed out to us disdainfully & which we were grateful not to be subject to.”

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CW22 22/25

“It would be thought inhuman, if not barbaric, for children to be cared for by strangers, while the mother was working. There was something dangerous, if not lascivious, insinuated to us by propagandists,..”

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CW22 22/26

“…about pre-school children not being with their mothers, not receiving her protection & love during that vulnerable & needy time, but being instead “in the hands of strangers”...(god forbid!)”

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CW22 22/27

“Nevertheless, after Reagan this dreaded feature of Soviet culture became the norm in American culture as well.”

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CW22 22/28

“So 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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CW22 22/29

“…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 22/30

“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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CW22 22/31

“*Obvious “Truths” [i.e., actual untruths or “truisms’]:*

“Americans are innovators & problem-solvers.

“There’s nothing Americans can’t do, no problem we can’t solve, once we put our minds to it.”

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CW22 22/32

“[Obvious “Truths”, i.e., actual untruths or “truisms”]

“Things just keep getting better in America

“Republicans are for small business.”

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CW22 22/33

“So unfortunately, 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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CW22 22/34

“…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 22/35

“Over time, over the course of my lifetime, though we might ostensibly have appeared to prosper we did not.”

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CW22 22/36

“The apparent rise in standard of living was a result of the glut of new consumer items produced in an increasingly technological & complex culture.”

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CW22 22/37

“You might be able to afford plenty of cheap trinkets & toys; but for things that pertained to your well-being & quality of life, such as health & medical care, good schools, wholesome food,..”

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CW22 22/38

“…higher educational opportunities, a clean environment, recreational opportunities, fuel & energy, leisure, family, & quality time, & so on, we were ever more wanting.”

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“*Peaking in the Sixties*”

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CW22 22/39

“In retrospect I can see we prospered in the Fifties & Sixties. 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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CW22 22/40

“*Poor Mothers Could Afford to Stay Home & Take Care of the Kids*

“I can see the ways we, living in the Fifties & Sixties, were as a culture fairly well off, though personally my circumstances were anything but that.”

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CW22 22/41

“My father made only fifty dollars a week for a time. However, my mother never *had* to go to work. She actually did get a part-time job much later in life for the *enjoyment* of it. Can anyone today imagine that?”

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CW22 22/42

“*How Much for That House? Okay, Let Me Get My Wallet*

“My father never made over a hundred dollars a week until later in his life when he actually started his own small trucking outfit...”

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CW22 22/43

“…that’s another story about who are the real job creators in America that I get into elsewhere. Yet he bought his home with cash he had saved up. Eight thousand dollars smack on the barrelhead in 1953.”

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CW22 22/44

“[My dad] never had to work three jobs to get by either, like some folks have to today. No mortgage on his house & he bought every car he owned—roughly once every five years—also with cash he had saved.”

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CW22 22/45

“*College Educations for Free in the Sixties & Seventies. #occupycollege Today*

“No loans, never in debt & yet five of his six children attended at least some college & two attained at least Master’s degrees.”

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CW22 22/46

“I was talking with my older brother about his college education, which mirrored my own, & we both remember getting by with very little or no debt afterward.”

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CW22 22/47

“We both received enough to cover all college plus living expenses most years just on scholarships & grants—mostly state & federally funded—yet we both attended private, somewhat prestigious, colleges.”

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CW22 22/48

“*I know, Millennial Generation & Gen Z, but don’t blame us, we’re on your side. #occupycollege.*

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CW22 22/49

“*What’s Health Insurance?*

“My family didn’t have any health insurance, had never even heard of it. We were not well off, but we like most people could afford to go to the doctor.”

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CW22 22/50

“Similar to others we could even normally pay hospital bills, for maternity & so on. If anything very serious developed that required more money no one ever imagined they would be turned away at a hospital.”

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CW22 22/51

“The Mercy Hospital in my city, run by a religious order of Catholic nuns & funded by contributions, was a place one could always go regardless of one’s means.”

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CW22 22/52

“Sounds unbelievably quaint, doesn’t it? I know. I can hardly believe it was once that way myself.

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“*Foolin’ the People About America*

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CW22 22/53

“[Obvious “Truths”, i.e., actual untruths or “truisms”]

“There is an abundance of food in America

“There is a huge problem with obesity in America bc folks actually have too much to eat.

“People are overweight because they eat too much.”

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CW22 22/54

“*Starving for Prosperity*

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“*“Have Some More, There’s Plenty!”*

“And my family never starved back in the Fifties & Sixties. The dinner refrain was “Have some more, there’s plenty.””

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CW22 22/55

“Though we were fairly poor by the standards of that time, I never, ever, ever imagined there being a lack of or limitation on food. There were big restrictions on sweet treats & goodies, but not on*wholesome* food.”

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CW22 22/56

“So it shocks me to see how much more concerned parents are today about how much their children will eat, as well as how precisely they mete out their gustatory offerings when entertaining.”

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CW22 22/57

“*“You’re Not Leaving This Table till You’ve Eaten All Your...Ketchup”*

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CW22 22/58

“When not that long ago I worked in a group home for troubled boys I was shocked & distressed to see the controversies over the food portions given & the restrictions on when they could eat.”

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CW22 22/59

“This was a government-funded group home & had to abide by all kinds of minimal standards in nutrition. Still, ever since Reagan determined that ketchup qualified as a vegetable serving, I have noticed this public stinginess about food.”

->... drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 22/60

“Where I worked, sugared-water drinks qualified as juice, & peanut butter consumption was limited to a thin layer like that of butter that’s spread on bread.”

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CW22 22/61

“Cheap sugar this & thats & nutrient-low, colon-clogging baked goods, noodle dishes, & pizza were the at-hand substitutes for wholesome, more substantial offerings.”

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CW22 22/62

“The resulting blood-sugar swings & erratic, aggressive behavior were handled with drugs & listed within their case histories.”

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CW22 22/63

“*“Please, Sir, Some More?”*

“There was much more like this but suffice it to say that I could hardly believe the happenings in this Oliver Twist world.”

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CW22 22/64

“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 with plate in hand, their eyes pleading if they might “please have some more.””

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CW22 22/65

“This miserliness about food seems a prevalent thing throughout the culture as it is evident in school lunch programs also. Whereas at the grammar & secondary schools I attended…”

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CW22 22/66

“…while growing up I enjoyed complete wholesome meals on a par with & sometimes surpassing the enjoyable repasts at home & even seconds were allowed, what is considered a decent school lunch today is shocking.”

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CW22 22/67

“Corporations have taken over as suppliers. Can you believe we had a Joe the Cook in grade school who concocted home-style offerings, which were ladled out by those of our mothers, including my own, who had volunteered?”

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CW22 22/68

“*The Beloved School Cook—Pepsico*

“Today the school meals are akin to that in fast food restaurants & just as monotonous...pizza, chicken nuggets, spaghetti, greasy burgers, hot dogs, fries. They are not “cooked.””

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CW22 22/69

“From what I understand, they are taken from freezers, popped in microwaves, & dealt out to pupils like one would cards. The epidemics of obesity & diabetes in our country attest to how much worse is the nutrition for young folks today.”

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CW22 22/70

“*Your Medical Payment or Your Life*

“What else is different now than fifty years ago? Well, there’s people who can’t pay for health care... can’t *get* health care? ...Now that’s something new for me too.”

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CW22 22/71

“Can’t get health care. Wow. You mean you’re sick, you’re gonna die, but you can’t get help in the medical system? Unbelievable. That used to be unheard of.”

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CW22 22/72

“I know. You’re thinking, “But we passed universal health care under Obama.” Remember though, 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 22/73

“Now, I don’t know if folks are being turned away from hospitals like they were before the Affordable Care Act was passed. Folks got refused care for lack of coverage in recent decades. & sometimes they died.”

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CW22 22/74

“I wonder how many others died while struggling to fill out the forms to apply for health care for the needy? *sarcasm*”

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CW22 22/75

“Regardless, 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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CW22 22/76

“Example? After we passed “universal” coverage Governor Jane Brewer of Arizona allowed a change in policy in their state-funded health care to deny organ transplants to those folks who could not afford it otherwise.”

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CW22 22/77

“These were organ transplants needed to save their lives. These people would have received them under some other coverage, but falling through the cracks & being poor—some of them born too disabled to be able to work at a job—”

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CW22 22/78

“—they were essentially told, “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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CW22 22/79

“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 22/80

“Isn’t this the kind of health care the opponents of “socialized medicine” say we would get if we went to single-payer?”

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CW22 22/81

“Well, we’ve got it folks—delays, rationing, denials, complications...and stress!—without any of the benefits of “socialized medicine.””

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CW22 22/82

“I’ve watched it take two weeks to get a prescription in Riverside County, California, when it should have taken forty-five minutes or less.”

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CW22 22/83

“The folks there handling health care for people who include poor folks on Medi-Cal are so overworked & stretched thin that you need to stand in line, literally *stand* in line for sometimes four hours or more to get a prescription filled.”

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CW22 22/84

“Think I’m exaggerating? I’m aware of at least one elderly gentleman who collapsed while waiting & was removed on a stretcher.”

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CW22 22/85

“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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CW22 22/86

“And the answer is no. No to the other question in your mind: “Don’t they have places you can sit down?” I know of no other place where you have to stand to get your prescription, you’re *required* to stand.”

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CW22 22/87

“But then this is a huge county hospital catering to the poor. It handles many poor people...& it does it poorly. 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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CW22 22/88

“*Starve the “Beast”*

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

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CW22 22/89

“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.”

THREAD.. drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 22/90

“This is the exact wording they have used, since Reagan, for their policies of tax cuts for the rich that require massive spending cuts on services for poor & middle-income folks.”

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CW22 22/91

“Yet think now: Just who do they imagine is really that “beast”? & why use the word, “starve”?”

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CW22 22/92

“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 22/93

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

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CW22 22/94

“…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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CW22 22/95

“*And Do You Get a Doctor?*

“Do you get a doctor, though? Not in this decade you don’t. When I was a child we went to the doctor’s office & paid $7 for a doctor’s visit.”

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CW22 22/96

“Even on my Dad’s $50 a week, that was affordable; & that was the least he made.”

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CW22 22/97

“When you now have doctor’s visits that cost a hundred to three hundred dollars if you pay out of pocket (or more), do you realize how much you’d have to make for it to be as affordable as it was for my Dad?”

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CW22 22/98

“Figure $700 to two to three thousand a week. Some people make that nowadays, but not the poor. Remember, my father was dirt poor, getting by on $50 a week with six kids.”

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CW22 22/99

“*House Calls in the Past; “Pretend” Doctors Today*

“Yet we got to see a real doctor. We even got a doctor who made house calls.”

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CW22 22/100

“Today? Well you get a pretend doctor who confers, along with a gaggle of other pretend doctors, with an actual physician, then gets back to you as you wait...and wait some more.”

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CW22 22/101

“*And You Wait*

“One time, it took four hours for the visit & another four hours to get the prescriptions in another place at the same hospital...& the prescriptions didn’t all come through until after two weeks & a number of phone calls,..”

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CW22 22/102

“…as at one point they had to order a common prescription & then lost the order...they had no record that it had ever been made; though on several phone calls they referred to it...& had to make it again.”

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CW22 22/103

“& this experience has been common. I’ve experienced it a number of times. I’ve since got health care elsewhere, believe me.”

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CW22 22/104

“*You Get an “Assumed” Doctor*

“Did I get a doctor? No. Oh, they call themselves doctors. The last one was more honest & announced when he came in that he was so & so who was a “student doctor.””

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CW22 22/105

“I didn’t hear him correctly. My mind scanned thousands of files in an instant & what it came up with I just had to ask. I said, “Did you say you are an ‘assumed doctor’”?”

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CW22 22/106

“*And You Like It*

“And being “processed” like a piece of meat this way, you get a different “assumed doctor” every time. There is no continuity. You don’t bother to keep track of their names, for it doesn’t matter.”

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CW22 22/107

“You start all over on every visit. The only thing they know of you is what has been electronically recorded from previous visits; nothing human or relational is carried forward.”

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CW22 22/108

“They will tell you it is because all the “assumed doctors” are equally competent & qualified, so it doesn’t matter.”

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CW22 22/109

“Of course, that is a rationalization for a system so “starved” of funding the personal touch has long ago been squeezed out in favor of assembly-line processing.”

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CW22 22/110

“*Or You Choose to Die*

“So 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 22/111

“I didn’t have a job, so I was able to persevere. What of folks who have to work full time or more? I was well enough to stand around & coherent enough to make notes & make phone calls. What of folks who are sicker than that?”

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CW22 22/112

“*The Unspoken Costs of Health Care*

“The upshot is that many folks are weighing *these* costs of health care when choosing whether or not to seek help.”

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CW22 22/113

“& their decision is leaving many of these folks dead. I know of a number of people who have made such a decision; many of you also do.”

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CW22 22/114

“*Some are choosing a“soylent green” escape*

“I know of one instance where it was even done consciously, for the person did not want to spend what might be her last time on Earth struggling w an insensitive & mean-spirited medical system,..”

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CW22 22/115

“…so she just opted to let her cancer take her in the serenity of her home & surrounded by loved ones.

“Why am I now thinking of that movie *Soylent Green* again? Well, maybe you remember that scene as well.”

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CW22 22/116

“*Others are risking it*

“I know I myself weigh these costs in time & suffering & inconvenience whenever I feel I might need to be looked at for something. & very often...most of the time actually...I put off being looked at.”

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CW22 22/117

“I postpone doing tests that are made more time consuming & painful for poor folks (don’t get me started on that); & I often give up in pursuing the treatments & medications that I am prescribed...”

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CW22 22/118

“…figuring that putting up with the suffering of the ailment is better than the suffering incurred in its cure. & I am not alone. Will it cost me my life? Perhaps. Universal health care in America? Don’t make me laugh.”

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CW22 22/119

“*America—Best Health Care in the World
...Before *Them**

“Now, compare all this with the way it was fifty years ago. A friend of mine on Facebook shared how her brother was treated when he had a life-threatening injury.”

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CW22 22/120

“This was that long ago, & she relates they were poor. She says, they flew in a specialist from Australia to perform the delicate operation. I repeat, they were poor. But then this was all before Reagan...and Nixon. I’m getting to that.”

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CW22 22/121

“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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CW22 22/122

“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 22/123

“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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CW22 22/124

This has been the complete Chapter 22 of my book published 10/16/2022,

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

which is

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

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CW22 22/125

enjoy this threaded version of Ch 22: “Better Off Than Fifty Years Ago?

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

of *Culture War, Class War 2022: Truth & Generations* by Michael Adzema

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CW22 22/126

or click a link & enjoy the entire book--completely available now--with my compliments

The entire book is available online at the links If you want to see the entire book & read Ch 22 & any others, click any link in this thread

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CW22 22/127

& you can download a free copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* at the links.

Feel free to download it, pass it around, use it to help a Democratic & progressive causes, as you wish,

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CW22 22/128

This is the completed, extensively illustrated document for *Culture War, Class War 2022*

Click link:

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It's a pdf file & looks exactly as the book looks.

Download as many copies as you wish; use it to help Democratic & progressive causes

CW22 22/129

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

was written as a primer on history & current events, to provide a context for younger generations, who havent lived thru what this book reveals,so they can understand how we got where we are

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CW22 22/130

The book was written to provide an historical context to today’s events, for those who haven’t lived it.

said about *Culture War, Class War 2022":

"Well worth reading...Describes where we are & how we got here with great accuracy."

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CW22 22/131

If, instead of the free copies, you wish to purchase the book—ebook or paperback—these are links to use:

Paperback: amazon.com/dp/B0BJ4YVDQC/…

&

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CW22 22/132

&

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All my books are sold at cost or the absolute lowest price Amazon allows

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CW22 22/133

Feel free to share & pass this book around as you wish

To help raise awareness of & to support Democratic & progressive

Our very lives, not to mention our freedom & democracy, are on the line like no other time

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CW22 22/134

Democrats need to continue to WIN BIG

or it is all over for democracy in America & the world

& for the life on this planet.

You can use your copy of *Culture War, Class War 2022* to get word out to whoever or to whatever outlet you know.

> drive.google.com/file/d/1ySbhcO…

CW22 22/135

If Democrats don't continue to win big & fight GOP treason the Ukraine war will not be just there. We will be fighting Putin here, in a civil war, if the party working for him, Republicans, get power again.

You choose. I suggest, get active.

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CW22 22/136

& please send any comments/reviews of the book to me at

[e-mail]

or dm me.

The idea being I might be able to use your comments in describing it in my own sharing on social media.

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CW22 22/137

Up next, in *Culture War, Class War 2022* by Michael Adzema is

Chapter 23, titled,

“The Compassion Gap:

“With the Excuse of “The Game,” Small-Hearted Folks Can Now Flaunt Their Mean-Spiritedness”

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