Antifada's History is a Weapon 4: Pivotal Decade (1970s) w/ Matt Christman 2 of 2 PREVIEW

The Antifada

Sean KB and AP Andy

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🗓️ 3 June 2019

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

You wanted a denouement? Here's your goddamn denouement.

Matt and Sean finish this extended look into the 1970s by answering the questions: Why did Carterism (spoiler alert!) fall apart over its internal contradictions? Where have the politics of personal virtue taken us? Why was Reagan the man of the hour and why was Clintonism his enduring achievement? How did neoliberalism become the economic consensus and what the hell is happening now that its entire political and economic edifice is collapsing?

All will be revealed herein. The boys may have been tipsy off Tecate, but you'll need to pack that bong for a big old rip as 500 years of systemic cycles of accumulation are synthesized to make sense of this current pivotal decade that echoes so much of what happened in the '70s.

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0:00.0	After Reagan won, there was for a while a new narrative that that had been a huge gaff.
0:05.4	That's when they started calling at the Blaze Week.
0:07.2	Because the pundits had to figure out why it was.
0:09.2	And it's like, well, yeah, it's like Carter failed because Reagan showed up and said, at this pussy saying you got to put on
0:14.3	sweater or fuck him. Take all the fucking sweater. Exactly and so so for a while it was like yeah this
0:19.6	dope doing a stupid speech but now that it's a new consensus on the liberal and anyway
0:26.0	that this was actually brave tooth telling and that it's actually like a tragedy
0:30.4	that we didn't listen to Carter and we instead allowed ourselves to be led down the primrose path by the pied piper of of reactionary nostalgia in Reagan
0:39.6	But the thing is there was no policy connected to the fucking speech.
0:45.0	He was not promoting any idea.
0:46.9	And if he had, he had no mechanisms to put it into power.
0:51.1	He had no organic connection to any mobilized group of
0:54.6	voters or workers or anything like that. He had no way. He had nothing. He had
0:58.8	personal virtue put on a sweater, you know? Yeah, like the personal is political exactly like a good something
1:06.1	be personally more frugal yeah so there's a big bad wolf through all this just
1:11.4	lurking in the background and he's a B Hollywood star. He's,
1:16.1	I'd say good looking for an old man. He probably died his hair. He definitely died of hair.
1:20.4	Yeah, he would have been a nice silver fox.
1:22.3	Co-starred in several films with a chimp.
1:24.9	Yeah, did some commercials for GE was a huge proponent of anti-New Deal politics
1:31.2	all through this era. You know, ran several times and he was the
1:35.1	governor of California, ran several times as a Republican, almost B Nixon and
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