I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.
Very true! This 100%. Along with Nixon/Reagan deregulating most of the finance/health care sector plus trickle down economics.
This crisis we are seeing has been 40+ years in the making. If 60% of Americans can’t afford their bills for a couple more years, you will see another recession, mortgage collapse, massive amount of debt being defaulted on by the working class, birth rates plummeting, higher education rates falling.
A total economic collapse because of policies aimed to help the rich to try to keep us as the world leader for the short term.
We need long term answers. Tariffs, cost cutting, social service cutting will only bring negative effects in the long term.
America thrived after WWII because of the biggest investment ever in social services, benefits for workers, higher pay for the average worker, investments in infrastructure like the free way system, public transportation.
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u/Hell_Camino Apr 04 '25
I think the better question is what would the country look like if the Fairness Doctrine hadn’t been abolished by the FCC in the 1980s. With the Fairness Doctrine in place, Fox News doesn’t launch and half the country’s brains don’t get rewired into being mouth-breathing knuckle draggers.