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[–] Hobo@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

60+ years of conservative polcies have removed social safety nets, supressed wages, irresponsibly deregulated key industries, and funneled money to the ultra rich. These policies are largely responsible for the decline of the middle class, lack of accessible medical care, and decline if upward economic mobility. In this essay we will only be reviewing the 5,897 polcies enacted since George H. W. Bush that have directly affected these key socioeconomic systems for the middle and working class...

Yeah that doesn't quite have the same ring to it as "brown people did it" does it?