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Poverty

RadicalGeek

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Reply to unhappycamper (Original post)

Mon Oct 6, 2014, 07:59 AM

Oct 2014

They are still conviced that the "American Dream", an idea based in a different economy, is still real and relevant.

Of course, that notion may have been a mere tool to keep Americans from developing the "Class Consciousness" that many European Nations of that time had.

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Why voters don’t care more about income inequality [View all] unhappycamper Oct 2014 OP

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