Trickle down broke the USA. The wealthy will always find ways to keep the money they worship.
DensePoser on
Thought it was Nixon?
askyidroppedthesoap on
Between TRICK-le economics and the Christian church getting in bed with the republican party (both happening in ’79 and ’81) the country’s dire future was carved in stone by the time Reagan left office. He’s definitely the sharp curve in the road that changed our direction for the worse.
Orion14159 on
This is so deeply unfair, some of those good things started turning immediately bad with Nixon.
B_Williams_4010 on
It’s tempting to blame it all on Reagan, but that’s just because it’s his fault.
WordNERD37 on
Reagan was just the manifest of the Neocons. They took hold of the party in truth earlier in the 70’s. But if you REALLY want to point to when the Republican party truly died, it was with the rise of Barry Goldwater.
QuantumFungus on
Think the slavish devotion conservatives have to >!Donald Trump!< is new? Well they slobbered all over Reagan and that guy had a melted brain too. They just really like being led by authoritarians with brain damage, makes them feel understood. And needing a big daddy to tell them what to do is just part of their philosophy from top to bottom. Lol, bottom.
atreides78723 on
No lies detected.
Vortep1 on
They seem hell bent on steepening both curves lately.
you can prolly start the downward slope even before Reagan back to ~’71 Milton Friedman doctrine.
DaddieTang on
Watching the election coverage on election night in 80, I had a full blown, multi-hour meltdown. I was terrified. I even was accusing, erroneously supposedly, my parents of voting for Reagan.
I was 7.
SpockShotFirst on
“Some Metric” should be along the Y-axis, the X-axis is time
DaddieTang on
Even though I was just a kid, I watched the news every night abd read the paper. I was weird. But it was very obvious that media was pumping boomers and silent Gen types full of doom and gloom. If jimmy Carter cured cancer, Frank Reynolds would be on ABC news with an update about how we all may starve thanks to Carter.
SkanteWarrrior on
100% accurate chart
Prownilo on
Now now. It’s not all his fault.
Thatcher is to blame too.
Shaytanic on
This graph only applies to the poors. If you had a bunch of money starting in 1980 or so feel free to swap the lines.
Can17272 on
Well, anybody who thought trickel down economics was going to work, clearly didn’t have a grasp in how human greed works.
psyker63 on
Yup. I watched it happen. No lies in this graph
mormagils on
It cannot be overstated how much this graph is roughly true. Is there nuance? Yes. But oh my God if there was one graph to represent the US of the last few decades this is it
I’m GenX. I tell people that I grew up in the Bay Area without seeing homeless people anywhere but a few specific blocks of San Francisco & Oakland before Reagan & they claim I’m lying.
There really was not widespread homeless problem before the Reagan administration. There were Federal Housing programs and they actually kept people off the streets.
ailish on
Thanks, Regan.
Diddly_eyed_Dipshite on
Americans reading the “metric” in this graph
NeverLookBothWays on
Reagan marked the beginning of just flat out lying to voters rather than trying to build a viable platform.
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Trickle down broke the USA. The wealthy will always find ways to keep the money they worship.
Thought it was Nixon?
Between TRICK-le economics and the Christian church getting in bed with the republican party (both happening in ’79 and ’81) the country’s dire future was carved in stone by the time Reagan left office. He’s definitely the sharp curve in the road that changed our direction for the worse.
This is so deeply unfair, some of those good things started turning immediately bad with Nixon.
It’s tempting to blame it all on Reagan, but that’s just because it’s his fault.
Reagan was just the manifest of the Neocons. They took hold of the party in truth earlier in the 70’s. But if you REALLY want to point to when the Republican party truly died, it was with the rise of Barry Goldwater.
Think the slavish devotion conservatives have to >!Donald Trump!< is new? Well they slobbered all over Reagan and that guy had a melted brain too. They just really like being led by authoritarians with brain damage, makes them feel understood. And needing a big daddy to tell them what to do is just part of their philosophy from top to bottom. Lol, bottom.
No lies detected.
They seem hell bent on steepening both curves lately.
[it’s more than not a coincidence, it’s intentional](https://youtu.be/unSBLkk2FKc?si=FhJPu9rBidejcstU)
same, but it fits way too well tbh lol
you can prolly start the downward slope even before Reagan back to ~’71 Milton Friedman doctrine.
Watching the election coverage on election night in 80, I had a full blown, multi-hour meltdown. I was terrified. I even was accusing, erroneously supposedly, my parents of voting for Reagan.
I was 7.
“Some Metric” should be along the Y-axis, the X-axis is time
Even though I was just a kid, I watched the news every night abd read the paper. I was weird. But it was very obvious that media was pumping boomers and silent Gen types full of doom and gloom. If jimmy Carter cured cancer, Frank Reynolds would be on ABC news with an update about how we all may starve thanks to Carter.
100% accurate chart
Now now. It’s not all his fault.
Thatcher is to blame too.
This graph only applies to the poors. If you had a bunch of money starting in 1980 or so feel free to swap the lines.
Well, anybody who thought trickel down economics was going to work, clearly didn’t have a grasp in how human greed works.
Yup. I watched it happen. No lies in this graph
It cannot be overstated how much this graph is roughly true. Is there nuance? Yes. But oh my God if there was one graph to represent the US of the last few decades this is it
[Obligatory Reference: wtf happened in 1971](https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/)
That graph is so true and accurate.
Reagan’s tax cuts ballooned the deficit and it’s never recovered or paid for itself. He screwed us GenX’ers for the boomers.
can also sub out raegan for Andrew Johnson 😤
I was 13 when Reagan got elected. I remember my dad saying it was a catastrophe. He wasn’t wrong.
Well. For who? The before line includes the civil rights period or what?
https://preview.redd.it/48fejnr6eplg1.jpeg?width=2092&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72c1cea67beb31882b1184e574423c1008991498
I’m GenX. I tell people that I grew up in the Bay Area without seeing homeless people anywhere but a few specific blocks of San Francisco & Oakland before Reagan & they claim I’m lying.
There really was not widespread homeless problem before the Reagan administration. There were Federal Housing programs and they actually kept people off the streets.
Thanks, Regan.
Americans reading the “metric” in this graph
Reagan marked the beginning of just flat out lying to voters rather than trying to build a viable platform.
https://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/featured/two-santas-strategy-republicans-use-saint-nicholas-scrooge-shift-economic-messages/
https://digitalchew.com/2025/12/29/two-santas-strategy-how-gop-debt-scheme-hurts-families/