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I have followed you for over 12 years, and have also read many books in the past dozen years revealing to me how flawed America has always been.

In this essay, you have clarified exactly why now is even MORE dangerous than the last time the morbidly wealthy had this much power, just before the Great Depression.

-This time, we have the 1976, 1978, and 2010 Supreme Court decisions as additional deterrents, as we fight the same crescendo of immorality allied with authoritarianism as we fought beginning in the 1930s.

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Read about the 1870-1900 period. 1930 was an improvement. So is now. If you went out and slaughtered the poor people in an area you wanted to develop, today you would get arrested, but in 1890 they paid you by the scalp.

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