matthewr
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Another interesting Twitter thread from Thom Hartmann. It rings true from this distance, but there is obviously a lot I don’t understand about American politics and history.
It's about right and broadly the same story we had here, although the class war aspect of it was less explicit in America as they didn't have as much of a traditional left as us. The big problem of course is that it's a 40 year counter-factual and even if we hadn't had neoliberal revolutions courtesy of Thatcher and Reagan in the late 70s something else would probably have done similar in the intervening years. There are too many powerful forces influencing this so you kind of need it to fail for the truth of it to be apparent.
So I suspect about the best alternative history ends up with the US and GB being a bit more centre-right rather than further left. Something like a Macron's France or Merkel's Germany.
BTW It would be remiss of me not to point out that former poster Vuk was a big fan of Thom Hartmann going all the way back to his RT days.