america is haunted by the inability to recognize, let alone reckon with, the incontrovertible fact that the relatively-broad prosperity of 1948-1973 was in fact a historical aberration and no set of economic or social policies will ever bring it back

this unique period becomes the benchmark for normative social structure, gender roles, household composition, cultural production, industrial relations, & even what liberatory social movements are supposed to look like even tho this era was vanishingly small in US/world history

each of those structures had a material base that simply can’t/won’t return: US capitalist hegemony and global rates of profit necessary to sustain that entire social world. arguing for a return to, say, the single-breadwinner family today cannot be anything but cynical moralism

ok of course i have to include this shameless plug.. but anything more i could post about this @cushbomb and i have already said more eloquently here

ugh didn’t mean to post the preview, the whole ep is unlocked https://fans.fm/p/2yl8glv 

now that neoliberals and chuds are finding this thread the cope cycle can begin