1/ In the 1970s the average American worker had a job with good benefits, could afford to own a house and a car, could afford a yearly vacation, one parent could stay at home if they wanted, and they could send mulitple kids to college.

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2/ There’s been a massive theft of public resources into the hands of a tiny few & people have every reason to be outraged. GOP started the theft but Democrats haven’t stopped it. Neither political party should feel proud of itself. People recognize they’ve been betrayed by both.
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3/ Are Democrats better? A thousand times yes. But no longer can that be used as a pass. Democrats not standing for what Democrats are supposed to stand for is how we got Trump to begin with & if Democrats don’t act like Democrats again then Trump or someone like him will be back
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Correct, and the US government kept practicing 'Keynesian' economics. Getting into more debt (with no intention of labor - now or later), as well as making more and more currency (that was not a product of labor). Nature said: "Oh no, you aren't getting 'something for nothing'."
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Replying to @marwilliamson
@WTF_1971 what happened in 1971?
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Replying to @marwilliamson
And now inflation under Biden will make that dream drift even further away!
Replying to @marwilliamson @KrisNoel65
Your image of the life of "the average Americans" in the past is mythological. At minimum, it did not include millions of "average Americans" who just happened to not be white.
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Replying to @marwilliamson
I grew up in the 70s Our vacation was taking a drive to the beach
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Replying to @marwilliamson
Here’s a coincidence. The Lewis Powell Memo (1971): “Perhaps the single most effective antagonist of American business is Ralph Nader @RalphNader. … He thinks, and says quite bluntly, that a great many corporate executives belong in prison.”
davidac @davidac35075727
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Replying to @_NicoleNonya @DEMS_R_GOP
The Lewis Powell Memo was written in 1971 to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. It was a blueprint for corporate domination of America through #mainstreammedia. IT CAN BE REVERSE ENGINEERED. The broadcast spectrum is a publicly owned asset. greenpeace.org/usa/democracy…
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Replying to @marwilliamson
This is because the value of the USD isn’t worth what it use to be. We need to make the value of the dollar higher and this will help the cost of living. The price to build cars and homes have been higher, while other countries currency has gone up, the USD has gone down.
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