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16. Smart lady. No, we're not going back

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Sat Aug 23, 2025, 11:53 PM

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and if you think about it very, very carefully, you'll realize that going backward means going back to a lot of things we took as normal but which were not good for us or our country, like massive offshoring of all the good jobs, destruction of unions, wage suppression as a matter of public policy, and a tax code that was massively skewed to benefit the super rich and no one else.

Hell, I don't want to return to that, no matter how comforting the politicians make it all sound. NO THANKS.

So I sincerely hope we will come through this insanity and find ourselves im a much better place, not a "normal" one. Normal wasn't so great. I don't want to go back there.

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