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Warpy

(110,900 posts)
7. The age of the people in that crowd didn't surprise me in the least
Thu Feb 25, 2021, 07:42 PM
Feb 2021

The social contract was discarded decades ago, the American Dream is a nightmare, and even people who should be middle class and even upper middle class have been left behind by wages that have fallen in purchasing power for decades while government services, including state universities for their children, have been eliminated, starved for funding, and become prohibitively expensive even if they still exist. America is sick and tired of being sick and tired and these are just people who fell for the authoritarians and their simple solutions to complex issues.

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