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#Economic Stockholm Syndrome? Do #Americans Still Worship "Job Creators”?
The billionaires robbed us blind for 44 years — and we thanked them for it... Will it still work for the GOP?
#ThomHartmann

..."Forty-four years ago, the Reagan administration — after winning the White House because they cut a criminal, treasonous deal with Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to hold the American hostages until after the "...

The Hartmann Report · Economic Stockholm Syndrome? Do Americans Still Worship "Job Creators”?By Thom Hartmann

#Reform is one of the most deceptive #political words, as it really means "a REturn to FORMer times".

It only gains popularity in a #climate where people are desperate for #change, and unaware that the change they seek requires immense #sacrifices they would personally be unwilling to make if they knew beforehand they would have to make them (see #Trump's second term as US #President and the #economic destruction of his own #voter base as he makes sweeping #reforms).

During good times, #social norms progress forward, sometimes much further than the #political #right can handle.

When times turn for the worst, the right inevitably gain #power and make things even worse via reforms to justify reversing social #progress.

This is not a new #cycle. Every time a #nation wakes up to its own #diversity, the right claim this #awareness is responsible for #economic decline and use this as an excuse to #tax the #poor and reward the #wealthy.

#maga was and is a tool.