You know when America was strongest?
1945–1975. The middle class exploded. Wages rose. Home ownership soared. One income could raise a family. You remember it—or your parents do.
How did we get there?
The New Deal. • Social Security • Massive public works programs • Strong unions • Banking regulation • 90% top marginal tax rates • Government investment in housing, jobs, and education
That’s not “big government socialism ruining the country.”
That’s why America thrived.
Then, slowly, it was dismantled—starting in the 1980s. Tax cuts for the rich. Union busting. Privatization. Deregulation.
We were promised “trickle-down economics.” What we got was rising inequality, outsourced jobs, unaffordable healthcare, and stagnant wages.
You didn’t lose your freedom because of the government. You lost your freedom because billionaires bought the government and rewrote the rules.
It’s not left vs. right anymore.
It’s top vs. bottom.
Time to reclaim what worked. Not for socialism. Not for capitalism. But for each other.
1945–1975. The middle class exploded. Wages rose. Home ownership soared. One income could raise a family. You remember it—or your parents do.
How did we get there?
The New Deal. • Social Security • Massive public works programs • Strong unions • Banking regulation • 90% top marginal tax rates • Government investment in housing, jobs, and education
That’s not “big government socialism ruining the country.”
That’s why America thrived.
Then, slowly, it was dismantled—starting in the 1980s. Tax cuts for the rich. Union busting. Privatization. Deregulation.
We were promised “trickle-down economics.” What we got was rising inequality, outsourced jobs, unaffordable healthcare, and stagnant wages.
You didn’t lose your freedom because of the government. You lost your freedom because billionaires bought the government and rewrote the rules.
It’s not left vs. right anymore.
It’s top vs. bottom.
Time to reclaim what worked. Not for socialism. Not for capitalism. But for each other.
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