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Behind the Bastards

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The New Deal and the American Dream - Part One

We have this kind of collapse of the legitimacy of the american political project sort of with the iraq war right we all kind of saw how badly that can turn out and but what was left in america of all that entire edifice was the idea that even though things politically were screwed up at least there's economic success. The new deal is a way to prevent workers from feeling like the only thing that they had in front of them was to take over the factories or show up at the doors of the rich. When the new deal is caused it excluded like black people right and so that's one way i hope this is what i was going to ask you how do we prevent another

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