• BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world
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    Because the American theocracy is built around their most holy of books, “Atlas Shrugged.” Greed and selfishness are noble pursuits, and whoever is hurt by them deserves it because they weren’t strong enough to fight back and win.

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      I mean, yes but also extremely no. Rand’s influence ends about three feet away from those books. The Chicago School of Economics, The Cato Institute, and The Heritage Foundation are the real powerhouses here.

      That, plus good ol’ racism and the oil crisis of the 70s are why we missed the bus on robust social safety nets. (Boomers were making actual societal change, but then the oil crisis turned a majority of them into conservatives)

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        The oil crisis will go down in history as the beginning of the end, where the story of the Late American Republic starts.

        All that is left to decide is what chapter follows