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In reply to the discussion: I'm getting depressed.... I feel like evil is winning... [View all]Calculating
(2,955 posts)38. This country was never really all that great
I mean ffs, we had slavery for ages, then we had widespread racism for another 100+ years, then we had all kinds of government corruption from Nixon/Reagan, unjust wars like Vietnam/Iraq/etc, huge military industrial complex draining all of our funding, etc. In addition, terrible SCOTUS rulings on the commerce clause and Citizens United utterly screwed us. I mean we're great compared to the total hellholes of the world, but I would never say this country was actually 'great' in a legitimate sense.
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I have been holding on since the 2016 election. Now, I'm finding it hard to hold on.
SharonAnn
Jun 2019
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