Is the Reagan Devolution finally totally discredited?
I’m thinking about the way things have gone in the last 30 years or so, since the Reagan Devolution; where culture, arts, programs for early childhood and the poor, and humanities were laughed at as extravagances, and promoting the bland values of the world corporate community became paramount where “Greed is Good” was its motto. Our society was not just changed; the sense of an America that cared about people, creativity, even science and inventiveness, was destroyed. Following upon Reagan’s heels, Newt Gingrich sealed a decade of backward movement for working people and the middle class, and the programs and institutions that were their lifeblood. Instead of promoting new areas for jobs, education, training and opportunity, government was crippled and directed towards the increased support for the wealthiest Americans. Those who had based their businesses in the U.S. were encouraged to go overseas and become world citizens – tax-free money-makers without a country, and were rewarded
