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42 - 1776

The Worst of All Possible Worlds

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Is There a Real Right to Roll Back?

I think it speaks to a short-sightedness or a misunderstanding that I often see with American liberals, where they think that the game plan for conservatives is just to keep things the way that they are rather than actively rolling things back. That's what people like this would be agitating for and celebrating. And that's also why the idea of a true revolution scares them. But in terms of them as characters in 1776, there are no real rights to roll back. Does that make sense? Like, I understand where you're coming from. This is being a product written in the 1960s. The song was written in the 60s to be a direct reflection of the Nixon administration.

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