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I can't say I disagree (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Jul 2018
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Wounded Bear
(58,694 posts)1. Yeah, they hid this part of our collective reality for quite a while...
Trump ripped the scab off for us.
Now, the question is: Can we make things better from this?
I certainly hope so.
Nitram
(22,853 posts)2. Yup.
dalton99a
(81,566 posts)3. Donald Trump is not American. He only has American citizenship.
sandensea
(21,651 posts)4. To be fair, Dubya had already done that.
Obama repaired about half the damage - and now this.
bucolic_frolic
(43,257 posts)5. The Great Recession has forged a new generation of Millennials
and those who think and behave, economically, like them. Home businesses and gigs, right-sizing consumption, prudent frugality, production for home use. In many ways they are more conservative financially than the GOP, sort of like old-time New England thriftiness.
If America ever gets its consumption aimed at sustainability, it will be a force to be reckoned with.
calimary
(81,435 posts)6. He is an opportunistic infection.
And the infection has been allowed to metastasize.
Gothmog
(145,488 posts)7. Great meme