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Housing was cheaper, so was higher education and health care, and despite Nixon, Vietnam, Watergate, and the oil crisis there wasn’t the same post-“End of History” stasis that has characterized the neoliberal order.
Housing was cheaper, so was higher education and health care, and despite Nixon, Vietnam, Watergate, and the oil crisis there wasn’t the same post-“End of History” stasis that has characterized the neoliberal order.
https://twitter.com/bfcarlson/status/1653932051878346752
For as awful as the 1970s were, you could still imagine that a better world was possible and work collectively to accomplish it.
Now, to be clear a lot of this—simply looking at the R vs. D breakdown in the poll is Archie Bunker-style nostalgia, yearning for a time when the blacks and the gays knew their place.
But I think it’s important to underline just how fluid things were in 1973, and how the landscape for the black freedom struggle and gay liberation seemed nowhere near as bleak as it does in retrospect.
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