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Effortpost: Even the "Winners" of Bidenomics Are Angry. They’re Right to Be!
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The Guardian had an editorial this week making a similar point. People got to experience life with an actual social safety net for a while, realized how much easier it made life even in the midst of a global pandemic, and now they're pissed that it's gone.
Supposedly, this is what allowed Britain to build a welfare state after the second world war as well. The poor actually saw general nutrition improve during rationing, and they witnessed what the state could accomplish if it really wanted to.
The rich realised this, and figured out that if they didn't throw a bone to the working class, they were going to end up dead, and so compromised.
Having the Red Army located in Eastern Germany surely also helped make the prospect of revolution go from specter to reality.
It probably helped, though it's not like they were ever getting across the channel.