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I understand why MAGA Republicans resent federal workers, who once held secure, middle-class jobs, embodying the American dream. But that dream has eluded millions, leading to bitterness.
Looking back, Democrats controlled Congress for decades post-Great Depression, building labor unions, ensuring fair pay and safe workplaces. Republicans and billionaires fought this, creating the Heritage Foundation and backing Reagan, who implemented trickle-down economics, demonized federal workers, and ignited culture wars.
They also waged war on information, targeting history books and news outlets. It's cheaper to misinform you than to support you. Now, many misinformed citizens blame immigrants and federal employees, while Republican leaders enjoy a distorted American dream funded by the working class.
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Speaker 0: I understand why MAGA Republicans resent federal workers. Federal workers are highly educated Americans who until recently had secured jobs doing what they loved in exchange for a middle class life and retirement. They were living the American dream we were all promised as kids. Go to school, work hard, and have the American dream. But for millions of Americans, that dream never came true, leaving them bitter and looking for someone to blame.
So who's to blame? Just look at this chart here for a second. This is the balance of power of Congress over time. After the Great Depression from 1934 to 1996, the entire time Trump claims America was great the first time, Democrats controlled the House for fifty eight out of the sixty two years and the Senate for fifty two out of those sixty two years. And they used those decades of power and control to build labor unions, to guarantee good pay and benefits, to protect your rights as a worker, and to guarantee a safe workplace.
The work Democrats did over those sixty years is the definition of the American dream we have today, and we did it all with a significantly lower economic output because the wealth created from that output was taxed fairly. But Republican billionaires fought it the entire time. And after sixty years of losing, they knew they needed a new war, which is why in the seventies, they created the Heritage Foundation, which then propped up an actor named Ronald Reagan. And they gave him a policy playbook called the mandate for leadership, which was basically the 1980 version of project twenty twenty five. And Reagan immediately went to work for them with the trickle down Reaganomics bullshit that destroyed the middle class and exploded the national debt, with the demonization of the federal workforce, and with new culture wars rooted in class, race, gender, orientation, and religion.
They paired this all with a war on information because they knew none of this bullshit would stick to a well informed electorate. So they came after history books, universities, and news outlets. And they did all of this for one very simple reason. It's cheaper to feed you misinformation than it is to feed you and your family. Now after forty years, millions of hungry, misinformed citizens look at immigrants, homeless veterans, and federal employees as if they're the enemy, all while Republican leaders and their billionaire donors live out their distorted version of the American dream paid for with the wealth generated by the American working class.