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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Medicare, CPP, the student loan system, unemployment insurance, the guaranteed income supplement, and other pillars of public welfare were put into place in our grandparent’s time. Do think a government proposing those programs today could marshall the political consensus necessary to carry them out?
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No, because we were cursed with an entire generation of selfish #######s, who worshipped at the altars of Thatcher, Reagan, and Friedman. Unfortunately, those same selfish #######s still have a lot of voting power and are easily duped by Facebook memes and right-wing charlatans (see: Yoho).