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BaronChocula

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3. Not really news to me

Reply to greenman3610 (Original post)

Wed Aug 20, 2025, 02:02 PM

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Since the 60s and 70s when the Democratic Party began taking on the sole guardianship of civil rights for all, Democratic support has become less reliable and less stable. Republicans on the other hand dove into the appeal of further marginalizing the marginalized and their defenders.

It's so much easier imagining all brown foreigners as villains than it is to understand the roots of inflation.

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