If civics (and government) alone were not eliminated as a mandated core by the Reagan Administration's Secretary of Education Bill Bennett, and finally what scant districts across the country keeping any remaining programs limping along being, themselves, federally defunded in 2011 as part of a Senate appropriations bill, perhaps America's worst parts of her history would not continue to be repeated.Īmericans continue falling prey to the Gilded Age big lie of radical free-marketing corporatism (laissez-faire libertarian economics) and its systemic devastation, and plundering, of the 99% wealth PRODUCERS to enrich the upper 1% and corporate wealth EXTRACTORS. The true failing of our leadership and a national embarrassment to anyone who cares about such things. Those outside America know American history far better than Americans do now, en mass.
The subject matter of America's unparalleled violence, and open hostility (to this day), towards its labor forces (the true wealth producers of the world since time and memorial), throughout its history, has always been/is BY DESIGN, and such histories should still be part of core academic civics/government/history studies in this nation. Her fight remains relevant today, unfortunately. Mother Jones was an authentic hero to humanity, women, children, the poor and exploited wealth creators of every race, creed and gender. The period of time immediately following emancipation, leading up to the "Roaring Twenties", rapidly brought to an end by the Stock Market Crash of 1929 bringing on the Republican Great Depression (that was what it was ORIGINALLY called lingering into the 1970s until memory died out and it could be "rebranded".)
An unabashedly raw first hand accounting of what it was like to be the 99% during what was referred to as "The Gilded Age" in America.
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