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appalachiablue

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2. I agree, well said. It's appalling esp with the great wealth here in the US. It's going back to a very small

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Sun Mar 8, 2026, 04:39 PM

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middle class and a large, struggling lower class. A return to horrid conditions in the Gilded Age and the era of Victor Hugo in France, Dickens in England and Europe with beggars on the street, crime, starvation, gangs, debtors prisons, workhouses for the poor and sick, and prison.

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It breaks my heart when I see older people working, brer cat Sunday #1

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While the current occupant of the White House and family members are raking billions into their pockets question everything Monday #4