Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.
I think Americans have to be poor again to learn to to have a shared struggle and rebuild communities in order to fight again. 80 years of being a superpower made a disproportionate portion of Americans extremely complacent. The two party system did not prevent outsiders being elected and end the gilded age before. The Americans who ended the gilded age and elected the Roosevelts would be rolling in their graves seeing their descendants extremely cucked.
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uriel238@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 112d
Unchecked, power consolidates. -- Barry from Barry's Economics
Karl Marx also said approximately as much in Das Kapital
Kanda@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 113d
And it's all downhill from here
Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 112d
People don't consider the Business Plot enough. Many of the elites of US society today are these people's children.
Its unlikely they gave up their ideas completely, and the path the US followed till today suggests they didn't.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 112d
Just think how long it's been ignored. We're far behind the times of political awareness and engagement.
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 112d
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And weak men create hard times.
I think Americans have to be poor again to learn to to have a shared struggle and rebuild communities in order to fight again. 80 years of being a superpower made a disproportionate portion of Americans extremely complacent. The two party system did not prevent outsiders being elected and end the gilded age before. The Americans who ended the gilded age and elected the Roosevelts would be rolling in their graves seeing their descendants extremely cucked.