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Hey Joe

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3. It is as if most Americans never even picked up

Reply to kentuck (Original post)

Tue Jan 20, 2026, 11:30 AM

Yesterday

a history book.
How someone can even reach voting age and not be aware of our own history let alone the last 200 years of world history is pathetic.
I guess the Information Age was not the success it was made out to be.
So maybe we are doomed to repeat it?

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