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pat_k

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1. Backlash against the perverse consequences of concentrated wealth has ...

Wed Jun 17, 2026, 12:34 AM

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... been a primary driver in the right direction as we muddle toward "a more perfect union."

I think/hope we may be at a turning point like the backlash against the gilded age in the1890's or the backlash against the concentrated wealth of the 1920's that ultimately brought us the new deal (as Heather Cox Richardson often discusses).

Whether the nation as a whole is, or isn't, "there" yet, I'll be doing my little bits to fuel the backlash.

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Backlash against the perverse consequences of concentrated wealth has ... pat_k Yesterday #1

I'm thinking this has much to do with the dynamics of the predominant mass medium of the time Uncle Joe Yesterday #7

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I can't help but suspect the aim, here, was to discourage Democrats from voting. calimary Yesterday #3

Who on the left said that? I never heard anyone say that. KPN Yesterday #4

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