• Shadywack@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    I’m really glad you mentioned some of the progress, while it’s not ideal, it does remind me that we ended the Gilded Age, and we can continue to confront the robber barons of our time. In US history we’ve already had a few near misses where we almost went the road the Romans did by giving a wealthy person absolute authority. We have to stay aware and be ever vigilant.

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      11 months ago

      That’s really when America as it exists today was created too, between the Civil War and WW1. Often glossed over in the popular mythology of America.