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How did the conservative "Reagan Revolution" and the end of the Civil Rights Movement and War on Poverty impact cultrue?

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Answer 1

Monc is right. The impact on our culture has been negative. Policies set he forth,and hailed by Reagan's supporters, have created more wealth for the already wealthy and greater poverty for the poor. People have gained civil rights, but little else. Personal responsibility should not be overlooked, but those with greater resources have greater power than those who do not.
The War on Poverty was simply sabotaged and abandoned. As a result, many people are left disenfranchised. They often become desperate enough to seek wealth illegally. Sometimes, the feeling is that wealthy people see the lower classes as individuals who "aren't living right", or even "its their own fault that they are poor". Some wealthy people don't see the contribution that they can make by supporting higher education. Another consequence has been the decline of labor unions. Good jobs that used to be available to a lot of lower class (working class) poor people vanished because of Reagan's policies. The correlation between the unemployment rate and crime rate is well known. The best way to improve it is to created good paying jobs with benefits.
Another consquence has been the change in pop culture and popular music. Art reflects life, so if you look at music, for example, over the last 40 years you can see it has become angerier and tends to objectify people, especially women. Compare how music called for change and unity in the 1960's to sex and love in the 1970's to gangsta and rebellion in the late 1980's and 1990's.
Overall the conservative movement has set us back a little bit, but that should easily be overcome as more people see that conservatism helps very few people while at the same time makes more and more people unhappy and desperate.

Answer 2

well, Reagan himself said that he felt that most homeless people were there by choice, and he wanted people to pull themselves up by their own bootstraps.

It swung the pendulum of society from far left to far right. No longer was the War on Poverty an issue, because building up the military would need that money in order to compete withe the supposed levels of weapons production of the USSR.

Reagan genuinely wanted a better society, I just think he bought too much into "trickle down economics" where if you cut taxes on the wealthy, eventually the poor get some of the extra spending money from the wealthy in the form of increased wages or better jobs. It has since been shown that more of that money goes into savings than previously thought, so that the amount that trickles down is negligible.

Answer 3

Reagan's cuts in social spending put many people on the street, he also led the charge to bust the unions when he fired the Air Traffic Controllers along with his enormous budget deficits.

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