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betsuni

(25,472 posts)
1. 2016, two Washington Post writers traveled the country to gauge the mood of Americans:
Tue Oct 19, 2021, 02:19 AM
Oct 2021

"For every disgruntled person out there who felt undone by the system and threatened by the way the culture was changing, caught in the bind of stagnant wages or longing for an America of the past, we found someone who had endured decades of discrimination and hardship and yet still felt optimistic about the future and had no desire to go back. In this season of discontent, there were still as many expressions of hope as of fear. On a larger level, there were as many communities enjoying a sense of revival as there were fighting against deterioration and despair."

The U.S. is a very large, diverse country and the minority Republican nuts will not win in the end. The country is not an oligarchy and corporations still need customers, the military is not behind Trump. What happened to speaking truth to power, fighting, passion, revolution? Only exciting when not used against the real danger, Republicans?

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