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That will never happen in the US as long as the current iteration of the Republican Party has any power to stop it, which is given to them by people continuing to vote against their own interests and thinking that billionaires are what “makes America great”.

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The democrats are just as guilty of this.

There was bi-partisan support for blocking congress from trading due to clear insider trading and the Democrats refused to support the bill.

Democrats were also the ones to move all manufacturing to China, which hurt the American worker more than anything we've done in the past 20 years. If the democrats were actually serious about the working class, they would've let Bernie compete against Trump.

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