• ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Yeah there was a correction but not one big enough to not call America gilded. The civil rights movement was a step forward but not everyone took that step willingly and some harbored resentment.

    That’s what gilded means. It’s fake. Looks nice on the surface then you see the details.

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      26 days ago

      They were talking about before the Civil Rights movement, FDR’s New Deal and stronger unions from the 30s-50s brought economic inequality way down. It started to go up again after that, and the current out of control situation really began in the 80s with Reagan’s awful tax policies that we’re still facing the consequences of