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Martin68

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5. Exactly. Liberals try to improve the country while conservatives long for a non-existent Golden Age in the past.

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Sat Mar 7, 2026, 12:16 PM

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It doesn't mean the country had not done good things in the past. It means some really bad things were also happening. We need to acknowledge that in order to move beyond it.

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