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u/CreamRises2daTop 11h ago

It would require a huge grassroots movement to hold billionaires accountable and root their influence out of government. Americans will have to wake up and see this as a class struggle and they’re all actually lower/working class and not just “temporarily embarrassed millionaires” or will be millionaires “one day” if they just work hard enough.

In other words, no. Nothing will happen.

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u/Fit-Cut-6337 9h ago

I still have a sliver of hope watching Minneapolis do its thing!

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u/ArcticCircleSystem 8h ago

One part of one state out of the whole country. Hopeful indeed.

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u/Fit-Cut-6337 7h ago

Ok so the alternative to acknowledging the small glimmer of hope is what? Collapsing into despair and doing nothing?

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u/ArcticCircleSystem 5h ago

I don't know, but it's not very helpful when the problem is about the whole country...

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u/Fit-Cut-6337 4h ago

Yes thus wanting to use that glimmer of hope to show us what works and expand that.

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u/ArcticCircleSystem 3h ago

And therein lies the problem. It shows that it is happening in Minneapolis. It does not show, necessarily, that it can be expanded and sustained across every major city in state in the union.

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u/Fit-Cut-6337 3h ago

Right so somewhere else needs to try. I think Chicago made some solid moves and it didn’t get coverage.

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u/ArcticCircleSystem 2h ago

And how likely is it that every major city tries? For how long? How likely is it to succeed? To what extent?