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Macrophylla

(201 posts)
14. How you ask?
Fri Jan 24, 2025, 07:40 AM
Jan 24

It's America everyone and everything is for sale.

The reality of American history

This period of prosperity for average people post WW2 was in reality and historically an anomaly.

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Serious question [View all] malaise Jan 24 OP
Thank you malaise... Think. Again. Jan 24 #1
A corrupt and broken system. SamKnause Jan 24 #2
I agree. I'm so upset, angry and disappointed. TommieMommy Jan 24 #3
A system in which citizens have too little critical thought Martin Eden Jan 24 #4
Absolutely. yellow dahlia Jan 24 #28
Welcome to the the "real" United States of America" djacq Jan 24 #5
An authoritarian illiberal republic. Voltaire2 Jan 24 #6
I truly cannot understand Skittles Jan 24 #7
Doesn't make any sense to me either. joshdawg Jan 24 #11
J6 should have been a deal breaker for every patriotic citizen Martin Eden Jan 24 #21
NOPE Skittles Jan 24 #27
It's been proven that Trump knew he lost Martin Eden Jan 25 #30
The Constitution is a suicide pact HAB911 Jan 24 #8
Obama warned voters on Election Eve, 2016, Philadelphia bucolic_frolic Jan 24 #9
Why hasn't anyone mentioned NJCher Jan 24 #10
The US has gone to the dark and evil side. Irish_Dem Jan 24 #12
It is called a coup, the end of the rule of law, and Botany Jan 24 #13
I have been calling it a take-over. yellow dahlia Jan 24 #29
How you ask? Macrophylla Jan 24 #14
For me Mossfern Jan 24 #15
We all did although I have often wondered if your establishment malaise Jan 24 #18
A fascist system, I fear. Joinfortmill Jan 24 #16
A system nowforever Jan 24 #17
This is not a government but an bronxiteforever Jan 24 #19
We'll be lucky to have a country in four years or four weeks. spanone Jan 24 #20
He has effed up every effing thing he ever touched malaise Jan 24 #22
Absolutely spanone Jan 24 #24
It's called "gaming the system." DFW Jan 24 #23
Most fools are blind to the evil intentions, and don't think they will do less well Martin Eden Jan 25 #31
In the meantime "institutional memory" will yorkster Jan 24 #25
Rebuilding our institutions will be orders of magnitude more difficult than what it took to destroy them Martin Eden Jan 25 #32
This is the 5th time I have posted this, gab13by13 Jan 24 #26
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