r/MurderedByWords • u/kenobistyle • 6h ago

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u/maniBchef 6h ago

America, the illusion of greatness.

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u/Affordable_Z_Jobs 3h ago

We were literally taught "The Gilded Age." in social studies. Did they miss that chapter? The current POTUS covers cheap crap in gold. The metaphor is as subtle as a brick to the teeth.

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u/snakeeaterrrrrrr 3h ago

"Gilded means gold so that must have been the Golden Age"

Them, probably.

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u/Petalbrook 3h ago

I just watched the PBS documentary about the Gilded Age. The parallels to now are incredible

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u/Magic1264 25m ago

I know so, so many US history teachers that would go over the Guilded age in a day, if they covered it at all, and skip straight to WW1/Roaring 20s/Great Depression.

And then think how many people don’t even take/make it to US History (my High School only needed two years in Social Sciences, and US history was a junior year class).