Throughout our entire lives we have been hoodwinked into believing that America was progressing forward, when in fact the country was just circling back to the 1920's.
This is "From the Depths," an illustration from 1906, during the Gilded Age, by the renowned illustrator William Balfour-Ker, who made poverty and class his themes. https://www.loc.gov/item/2004666561/
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Nouveau riche guy doesn’t understand this is always the way it was. They just kept it civil and did not advertise it.
Raising awareness will likely have consequences they didn’t want.
America is not Russia.
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