At our best, Americans have known when to begin again. When to cut the cord with one chapter of our history and begin another. 1/5
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We responded to slavery with Abolition. We responded to the institutionalized oppression of women with the 19th Amendment. We responded to the Gilded Age with the establishment of organized labor. We responded to segregation with the civil rights movement. 2/5
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And now it’s our turn. We can cut the cord with an aberrational chapter of history and it’s 50 year war on the middle-class. 3/5
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Let’s reject the stale status quo of corporatism and begin again with a burst of democratic fervor. Let’s not be the first generation to wimp out on doing what it takes to correct our course when we have swerved so far from the truth of who we are. 5/5
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