FlyerInHI – the Great Recession resulted in ACA, Medicaid expansion which is strictly income-based, without regard for assets, as well as criminal justice reforms. Calls for sentencing reform and marijuana law reform started to get really serious right around 2009, because it was simply too expensive to pay to jail people for victimless crimes. It certainly resulted in both “socialist” and anti-authoritarian reforms.
The next Great Recession will push Americans further to the left.
