This article reminds us how we got into the financial crisis and the Great Recession. One would think that this would loom large in our memory and that we would want to avoid a repeat of this disaster. That has not happened. The GOP has put this entire episode into its memory hole and its candidates for the presidency are telling us that we have to return to the same policies that produced the Great Recession. Conservatives used to criticize the old Soviet Union for historical revisionism. Apparently, they have taken some lessons from it. Since Reagan was elevated to sainthood by winning two terms, by telling us that government is the cause of all of our problems, they are sticking to that message. The financial crisis, the Great Recession and our slow recovery were caused by government. The best way to get out of our crisis is to do the things that caused it in the first place. We have to get government off of the back of the free market.
The amazing thing is that they get away with this. It would not be possible to revise history without a lot of help from their propaganda machine which reinforces their message. They also get help from "mainstream media" which feigns objectivity by pretending that their lies must get equal time in their coverage of the news.
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