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Wounded Bear

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5. It took FDR 3 full terms and a major war to correct the RW Great Depression...

Reply to Stinky The Clown (Original post)

Fri Oct 3, 2025, 11:49 PM

Oct 2025

and he wasn't able to finish the job. Harry Truman tried, but the voters swung back and gave him Repub congresses.

I'm thinking at least one generation, maybe two, assuming we survive at all. We will probably need an entirely new Constitution, which wouldn't necessarily be a bad thing, because ours is getting a bit dated.

Dark times, and I'm getting too old for much happy talk.

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