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KD's avatar

The inequality between the top 1% of wealth in this country and the bottom 50% is staggering and it’s the greatest failure IMO of this country and I think was one of main reasons DT won the election in 2016 and 2024. Unfortunately his populist rhetoric is just an illusion. The massive tax cuts for the ultra wealthy and big corporations will be his big “Ta Da!” moment and his people will cheer and wave the flag and say “see what a great leader he is?” In the end he will get richer along with Wall Street and CEOs but there will be no celebrating in the Main Streets because small businesses will be forced to close due to inflation and tariffs, farmers will go under if they don’t get a hand out from the government, and manufacturing jobs will be fewer than expected because even if they do come back to the states the automation of the machines and AI will make human labor obsolete. DT has no intention of running a country or helping make people’s lives better. He’s about performative political drama, retribution and making money for himself, his family and closest friends. That’s all he cares about and he’s very good at it.

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Emily's avatar

Also worth pointing out that the fear generated around Social Security "running out" of money usually blames the easy (but inaccurate) target of too many Baby Boomers retiring at once, when the much larger issue is wage stagnation and widening income inequality that the funding models did not account for and have yet to correct.

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