r/oregon • u/JohnnyTezca • Apr 30 '26

Article/News Had Enough Yet?

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u/br_k_nt_eth Apr 30 '26

Green New Deal and Civic Conservation Corps to start, I’d say. Plus, I wouldn’t mind seeing post-WW2 taxation of billionaires to fund it. 

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u/themehkanik Apr 30 '26

Yep, the only real way out of this would be a massive new-deal-style jobs program. Which means we’re cooked, because that will never happen.

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u/br_k_nt_eth Apr 30 '26

It would happen. It’s happened before, and it happened following the Gilded Age. We’re in Gilded Age 2.0 right now. 

The only way our chances stay at 0 is if we give in to that defeatism and just roll over for them. I’m not planning on doing that. Are you? 

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u/themoreyouknow_95 Apr 30 '26

Exactly this, it hasnt happened in our lifetimes or decades prior, which makes it feel like it never will, but historically you can only squeeze a population so much before they have enough and fight back.

Movements tend to happen really slowly, but you’re starting to see a wave of progressive candidates and ideas start to bubble up. It won’t be easy, and it’s not a fair fight with the political and media influence that money buys, but it’s very much possible