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Wait a minute, I thought America was great again. Are you trying to tell me it isn't?
It is if you're a billionaire.
Even millionaires think so too. They're all living comfortably and it is easy for all of them to see nothing wrong going on. Obviously because they aren't on the receiving end of any accountability or struggle like the rest are.
The 41% who think the best times are ahead still believe that, but its probably just because they're fascists and have a very particular notion of "best times".
I have to believe the best times are ahead. I look back at any point in US history and there was more hatred for different people, more formal oppression of those people, more imperialist aggression. Maybe, there were times when certain segments of the white male population could get material goods more easily, but that was often at the cost of just just accepting poverty for everyone else. Not to mention literal famine and plagues.
There's a whole world of people out there making shit better all the time. Curing incurable diseases, building alternatives to fossil fuels, converting crowded streets to greenways. There's a lot of political pressure trying to preserve the bad old ways, even trying to bring back long-forgotten plagues, but we are still finding better ways to do things despite those malicious fucks.
Just one more moron to steer the ship around. Trust me. One more braindead criminal.