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DFW

(59,187 posts)

5. Hard times in the land of plenty

Reply to moniss (Reply #4)

Fri Oct 17, 2025, 01:21 AM

Friday

A one hit wonder decades ago

Hard times in the land of plenty
Some people got a lot
Hard times in the land if plenty
Some people have not
Got any

And I reject the simple solution to put this on the backs of “the wealthy.” It was the mass of Fox-watching middle class and the lower middle class who put Trump back in the Oval Office, not a few rich people in Highland Park, Laguna Beach or Forest Hills.