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Notes on video lecture:
1980s Political Polarization
Notes taken by Edward Tanguay on September 12, 2014 (go to class or lectures)


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ballot, Genscher, Mitterand, 1983, economy, Cuban, Serfdom, reboot, Andropov, bully, liberal, Thatcher, intentions, Reagan, Tendenzwende, Poland, Europe, Afghanistan, Italy, defensive, Friedman, order, domestic, European, banks, symbol, Schmidt, socialist, malaise, Britain, polarized, communist, demonstrations, German, terrorist
1970s: looking for new ideas to get out of the economic
economic liberalism
instead of larger government control of the , retreat from a government role in the economy
Milton , 1975 interview
he calls himself a as in freedom instead of a conservative as in conserving the current economic practices
says its a mistake to judge policies and programs by their rather than their results
says programs that are labeled for the poor and needy almost always have the opposite effects of those for which they were intended
he borrows from earlier economists
Friedrich Hayek, Austrian economist from 1940s, book "Road to "
issue of human rights
taken up on left and right wings of American and politics
John Paul II (pope from 1978-2005)
represented the aspirations of liberty for people in
provided a symbol of the aspirations of liberty around the world
being held back by Soviet Union
yearning for public
reaction to the violence and the movements of the 1970s
America chased out of Vietnam, now on the
in the shadow of the USSR, looking now like the world's
political turns in the 1970s
and Spain
communists come close to gaining power but are turned back at the box
England
comes to power
USA
comes to power
France
comes to power
looks as if France is going to become more deeply
1981 forms a ruling coalition and partnership with the party
1982 he then decides to align to partners, even with the British
firmly anti-communist in political issues
recoils from communism in economic issues
does not nationalize the big
he decides France just can't afford the long-term costs of socialism
but needs to join a European consensus that will capitalism
Mitterand's conversion in 1982 becomes a big part of an emerging trend
West Germany
no country was more important in determining the future of Europe than West Germany
Helmut 's SPD
very pro-NATO and anti-Soviet
strong on defense issues
had to govern along with Germany's liberal party, the Free Democrat party
led by Hans-Dietrich
crisis over missles
the Soviet Union deployed in the 1970s a new set of missiles which could target sites all through
Western leaders saw this as a way to disable their response strategy to agression where the West could be the first to use nuclear weapons
therefore Europeans felt they needed missiles from the US which could strike the Soviet Union
West European leaders like Helmut Schmidt are asking the United States to deploy missiles in their countries
1979: NATO begins deployment of missles to be ended by
became an enormous of the Cold War confrontation
SPD party led by Schmidt moves leftward
does not want to go along with the missile deployment
things it will make Europe a nuclear battlefield
they want agreements against arms
1980s politics becoming
pro or against NATO
end of social-liberal coalition
of hundreds of thousands of people in West Germany
1982 Kohl and the
seizing on the ideological differences between East and West
explicitly aligning with NATO
the East/West choice is also felt in , France, Italy, the United States
1981-1983 intense years of international crisis
Poland had to declar Martial Law
Soviet War in grinds on
debt crisis in the Third World
1982 Argentina seizes Falklands
1983 Soviets walk out of talks over missile build up
books
The Third World War
television drama
The Day After
films
Red Dawn - Soviet invasion of the United Stets accompanied by allies
War Games - war machines getting out of control
Reagan
portray strength with an interest in peace
vs.
Thatcher, Kohl and Reagan get support
win reelections
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Ideas and Concepts:
On the complete confusion of the terms liberal and conservative, via tonight's history class and a 1975 interview with Milton Friedman: "I never characterize myself as a conservative economist. As I understand the English language, conservative means conserving, keeping things as they are. I don't want to keep things as they are. The true conservatives today are the people who are in favor of ever bigger government, the people who call themselves liberals today, the New Dealers, they are the true conservatives, because they want to keep going on the same path we're going on. I would like to dismantle that. I call myself a liberal in the true sense of liberal in the sense that it means of and pertaining to freedom."