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If I was having a conversation with someone I disagree with in good faith, I would probably start that conversation with what we do agree with, right? That would be a logical place to start a difficult conversation.
For example, MAGA, make America great again. They have a point. America is not doing so great right now, right? Our kids math scores are down. Our children's science scores are down when judged according to international metrics. Uh healthcare systems not doing so great. Wealth gap disparities increasing exponentially.
There was a implied promise to a generation of Americans that if you do certain things, work hard, go to college, be a good person, you would have certain outcomes. And those outcomes didn't materialize for majority of people because baby boomers and trends in decision-making positions lower the capital gains tax so that their net worth essentially compounds year after year.
And post World War II, US leadership traded the domestic manufacturing industry for national security by making the US dollar the default international trade currency which gave America the ability to impose economic sanctions on foreign countries through a US financial banking system but consequently increase the value of the US dollar astronomically which made it impossible for anyone to manufacture anything in America.
Although the logic at the time was that Americans were supposed to upskill on mass away from the menial manufacturing jobs but everyone here is too much of a dumbass to stay in school. So, we just traded domestic manufacturing to Asia and the rest of the world at the expense of working-class families.
But if you don't read enough, it comes out as let's go, Brandon. And it's like you have a point, but you don't have the vocabulary to describe your reality because you didn't read enough. You got to keep breathing.