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The gilded age. When , as trump told you, tarrifs

were a most beautiful thing. Back in the gilded age. Late eighteen hundreds, early nineteen. He tauted the amazing wealth of the time. He told you he would like to bring on his own "golden age."
And you bought it.
Do you know how average people lived during the Gilded Age?
The glitz was a facade. The wealthy lived the backs of the oppressed. Look it up.

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MethDozer · M
The highest level of political corruption in US history, child labor, company coin, company stores, company towns, the Haymaker Affair where they bombed the workers, Carnage and Frick using snipers and machine guns on striking workers until the State Militia arrived for state funded assassination attempts on a union rep, the Chinese Exclusion act, the Crédit Mobilier scandle..... All this and more from the exciting pilfering minds of the parasitic Robber Barons