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Uncle Joe

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12. I think what the oligarchs hate is Europe's highly visible progressive social safety net. Which in turn almost always

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Sun Dec 7, 2025, 07:09 PM

Dec 2025

places those nations as among the happiest peoples of the world.

It's too easy of an example for aware Americans to use in pushing for a 21st century U.S. social safety net that matches our nation's wealth, culture, influence, and power, but pulls from the lucre addicted global oligarchs

The oligarchs prefer Europe spend money arming itself to the teeth particularly if it means pulling domestic spending from their citizens' well-being.

Then we can go back to the unchallenged dog eat dog world of the gilded age; and precursor to World War I.

Thanks for the thread littlemissmartypants

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