The statement at left has a certain surface-level appeal, but it’s inaccurate. What’s true: The United States was started by rich white male landowners, and its original laws were put into place to maintain the dominance of the wealthy Europeans. …
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The Truth about the American “System”
Tagged with: Brown vs. Board of Ed., neoliberalism that blossomed under Reagan, organized labor, post-WW2 booming affluence of the middle class, super-rich forged a way to use their wealth to take control of our lawmaking processes, the abolitionists of the mid-19th Century, the anarchists of the early 20th Century, the Civil Rights Act, the United States began its path toward oligarchy, the women's suffragists
