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Related: About this forumHow to Prevent Future Trumps - Robert Reich
If America doesn't respond to the calamity that's befallen the working class, we will have Trumps as far as the eye can see. - Robert Reich - 04/22/2025.
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How to Prevent Future Trumps - Robert Reich (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Tuesday
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Yep. This leopard is a "populist" elected by people whose faces will be eaten
Martin Eden
Tuesday
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markodochartaigh
(2,711 posts)1. The working class must be educated and energized.
Expecting an ignorant and apathetic electorate to produce a functional society in a democracy is like spreading canned corn across the desert floor and expecting a bountiful harvest.
Martin Eden
(14,180 posts)4. Yep. This leopard is a "populist" elected by people whose faces will be eaten
They don't understand history so haven't learned from it, and others like them will be easy marks for the next populist con man that comes along.
Trust_Reality
(2,155 posts)2. IMPORTANT
Please watch. It is short.
progressoid
(51,325 posts)3. He's right about how we got here.
But the very reasons we are here are the same reasons that his solutions won't happen. The people that need to make those changes are beholden to big money (or are big money).