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The guillotines of 18th-century France did not drop in a vacuum. They were not an arbitrary burst of bloodlust, nor were they the spontaneous rage of a misguided mob. They were the culmination of decades of unchecked wealth hoarding, exploitation, and an elite class that believed itself untouchable-until it wasn’t.

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Exactly! Remember that "Bugs Life" movie? At some point the ants DO realize that they don't have to take the grasshopper's abuse.

Fun fact, the New Deal actually saved the rich capitalists. Communism was spreading world-wide. The plutocrats literally kept their heads because of the New Deal. The current crop of wealth hoarders aren't smart enough to understand!

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There's a moment in Ken Burns' documentary The Roosevelts that I find haunting. Someone tells FDR at the start of his first term that if he fails, he'll go down in history as the worst US president. FDR's response was "No. I won't be the worst President. I will be the LAST President."

He knew what was at stake if the Great Depression continued on the same course.

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That's what I still don't understand. Politically, we're at the exact same point. However, we're not in the midst of the Great Depression. We're coming off 4 years of a strong economy. The two high school trans athletes in MI really upset folks.

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Apparently half the country doesn't believe our economy is strong. They live in an alternate reality, but they are going to get one HELL of a wakeup when Trump crashes the economy for real. This has the potential to make 2008 look like a garden party.

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Not intending to spam, but this was from earlier in the week: https://twvme.substack.com/p/the-manufactured-malaise-why-americans

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Nice article, not spam at all!

If everyone I know is working full time, the economy is fine.

If I am working full time, but you are unemployed, it's a recession.

If I am unemployed, it's CLEARLY a full-blown depression!!! :D

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Valid!! Don't we all measure the economy based on our own context? If our perception isn't the best measurement, then I don't know how else to measure it.

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