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Rhiannon12866

(232,928 posts)
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:01 PM Tuesday

How 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 OP
The working class must be educated and energized. markodochartaigh Tuesday #1
Yep. This leopard is a "populist" elected by people whose faces will be eaten Martin Eden Tuesday #4
IMPORTANT Trust_Reality Tuesday #2
He's right about how we got here. progressoid Tuesday #3

markodochartaigh

(2,711 posts)
1. The working class must be educated and energized.
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:17 PM
Tuesday

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
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 10:20 PM
Tuesday

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.

progressoid

(51,325 posts)
3. He's right about how we got here.
Tue Apr 22, 2025, 07:34 PM
Tuesday

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).

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