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Ocelot II

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1. Seriously? I hate to be a Debbie Downer, but some of those statements just aren't true.
Fri Feb 24, 2023, 11:43 AM
Feb 2023

College isn't really more available than it used to be because it's vastly more expensive; until Reagan became governor of CA, tuition at state universities was free, and Reagan was the ideological source of the horrendous student debt we have now. It's no longer possible to work your way through college. Medical care is better only if you can get it and if it doesn't bankrupt you. We don't have more "liberal" governments; more states are controlled by the GOP than by Democrats, and in Europe the autocrats are becoming more powerful. Help for the poor is no better than it was 50 years ago. Racism and homophobia are on the upswing; just ask the Southern Poverty Law Center and the FBI. And I'm not sure that having more TV stations is "better" when you consider how much of their content is crap.

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