I'm reading a biography of FDR at the same time that I'm watching the Gilded Age on Netflix. Fascinating how FDR - and America - transitioned from the first Gilded Age into a progressive era. And we can do it again. History is just repeating itself.

Mar 27, 2022 · 7:04 AM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
Not gonna happen. Too many American Idiots now.
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She's right. Maybe I'm only saying so because her chronology is the same as mine. The expression "second Gilded Age" appeared in a book by Stephanie Coontz titled 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘢𝘺 𝘞𝘦 𝘕𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘞𝘦𝘳𝘦. Coontz focused on the zeitgeist-change that revived the mythical glamor
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But what will capitalism do to the world if we somehow save it from itself again and start that cycle of reform and ruin again? How much worse could it get if had another century to turn the earth into a living hell?
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You're skipping a few steps. The Gilded Age was the robber barons in the late 1800s. Then we had a labor movement where private pigs killed workers on strike. Then we had Hoover. Then FDR. Then then decades long dismantling of New Deal policies.
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Yes we can legend
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Me too 深有同樣得感覺;
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We won't do it unless people finally accept the Democrats are corrupt beyond repair & voting for them just empowers the broken duopoly. The change you speak of can come, but only when Americans finally walk away from this abusive relationship & finally build something new!
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What’s also fascinating about the Gilded Age is what was happening in South to Black people at that time. All that free labor making white Americans rich and ridiculous af! And they depicted them being kind to the Black character when they were nasty to other whites 😂