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Seems Like We’re in the 8th Round of a 10-Round Fight

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Seems Like We’re in the 8th Round of a 10-Round Fight

Jim Freeman
Aug 5, 2022
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(Maybe we’re too angry and exhausted to answer the bell)

Disconnects between the majority of Americans and U.S. policies across many issues are becoming increasingly worrisome for the country

Are they now? I would never have guessed. And here I thought it was a four decade problem that began with ‘the great communicator,’ Ronald Reagan. Communicating was his specialty, a hired actor playing President in a movie that lasted two terms.

A Hollywood Democrat, Franklin D. Roosevelt was once "a true hero" for him and he was once president of the Screen Actor’s Guild (a union) as well as twice California governor. But it seems we all have our price and taxes turned him Republican in1962.

I was a Republican back in 1962, but the Reagan presidency made me feel the party had left me

All that talk about ‘conservatism’ while Republicans metaphorically burnt the furniture to heat the house and have done since.

Anyway, according to The Hill, polls show us in a rage against our government. “A 2020 Pew Re…

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