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Jimmy Carter had a vision of a more peaceful society centered more on thrift and kindness for one another. Reagan proposed a bad-ass cowboy society and unleashed the debt mania that resulted in the 2008 financial crisis.
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I kind of agree with this. Carter pissed too many people off – he still does.
And Reagan was definitely a turning point or I would say a direction that was embraced by the upper .01% with the milton freidman neoliberal revolution – which is still ideologically being played out today – more or less.