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A Boring Dystopia
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Traditionally, when times are good economically are when people find time to advance social policies. That's why the Civil Rights movement found success in the 1960s. I'm sure had King marched across the South in 1929, the voters and political class would have had no appetite for it. Democrats through the economy was fixed forever once Obama was elected, but they were evidently wrong.