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From the time Lincoln was assassinated in 1895, until Roosevelt was elected in 1933, we had the age of robber-barons, enormous wealth disparity and the rich owning all of America.

We've had something like social progress from then until, when? Reagonomics? 1981.

So maybe 50 years of socially progressive government. Out of 250. Pretty dismal.




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