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Adão :
FDR PUT a 94% TAX ON THE RICH. It lasted until Reagan! That’s the real reason
2026-08-21 23:56:03
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Nick :
Counter point, there was bigger competition than ever. Aka the USSR, which forced the US to treat the people better
2026-08-21 21:19:51
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MessagesQuotes4you :
The worst thing to happened to Americans: The end of the Soviet Union....The Soviet Union forced America to be on it's best behavior in terms of helping those achieve the American dream. It was the war of ideology & America wanted to show that it's 'American dream' was real. The Soviets are gone now, so what is the motivation to keep a middle class now?
2026-08-21 21:39:01
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veronicabadon3 :
The middle class was made. It is normal to have a wide gap between rich and the poor.
2026-08-21 20:56:01
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Truth In The Universe :
The same middle class people once they got there they pulled up the ladder
2026-08-22 01:20:48
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Advil Plz :
Unions were strong then. People forget how much the middle class was a result of so much union participation. Labor can’t gain or hold ground with capital without a collective.
2026-08-22 21:13:39
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random7 :
you are blaming something on globalization that you ought to be blaming on Republicans.
2026-08-23 13:53:21
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Slippin' Jammy :
and as soon as segregation ended and Black folks were able to utilize the social safety nets that existed during this time frame, public support went away for those safety nets!
2026-08-22 08:03:56
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nickamemus :
FDR stopped real socialism by giving the much needed reform he did. And we haven’t seen reform like that since because he people in power don’t need to give it
2026-08-21 23:03:51
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scottandrewpk :
You're discarding the reality that we also had regulatory laws that checked corporations and benefited people. 🤷♂️
2026-08-22 08:59:12
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OkayCool :
College wasn’t just cheap.. IT WAS FREE
2026-08-22 23:03:48
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Jack Shaw :
We’re just trying to survive in a world built for the boomer generation
2026-08-22 09:40:01
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aww_ratz_ :
We were also at our peak of taxing the rich in the mid 1940s...
2026-08-22 06:41:07
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user4851961981193 :
The University of California college systems was tuition free until 1970
2026-08-23 17:41:02
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reyvalentine3 :
Retirement was a concept that only boomers got to enjoy
2026-08-22 18:19:53
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Cory Koster :
Socialism is our only solution
2026-08-22 17:01:40
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Scottie P. :
People who enjoyed that period didn’t even know. They look back and think they did everything right and deserved what they got
2026-08-22 21:40:05
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FoxyRomaine :
Unions were strong. Organize a union and fight for what was taken from us.
2026-08-25 23:40:54
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Le Davis :
The only time the U.S. thrived was when the rest of the world was bombed to smithereens.
2026-08-25 17:59:30
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Mike H :
It’s also the result of pro-labor legislation that ended the Great Depression, and that’s gone now. I think maybe that’s how they were able to convince so many working people that communism is a bad idea.
2026-08-21 20:40:57
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JNF :
So it’s still poor vs rich
2026-08-22 17:10:33
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Carlos Gomez :
WW2 was the main driver here, Europe was decimated and the US was one of the only countries capable of helping rebuilding. Manufacturing took off as there wasn’t any real competition and gave the US and economic boom
2026-08-22 21:41:24
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Drakken :
Wrong, that was just the global situation. Internally those 30 years were fostered by socialist policies due to competition with the Communists
2026-08-22 05:22:52
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V.B. Wonder :
Yep. We act like life is static when it’s 100% process. Everything changes literally second to second.
2026-08-22 05:18:45
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Nadroj Nikta :
The middle class was allowed to happen because the only other option was the people widely accepting communism. FDR made socialist policies in capitalism intertwined to prevent communism from happening because how bad the Great Depression had wrecked people.
2026-08-22 04:02:46
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