Pretty much the whole of my life (all 36 years of it) has been a time of struggle and despair for ordinary Americans. Sure, there was a brief window of not-so-bad during the Clinton years, but taken as a whole, with 'free trade,' impeachment, and the nightly news obsessing with the First Penis, it was hardly paradise. We all could list a litany of complaints as long as you please. And we could probably list a few triumphs as well, that the regressives haven't managed to undo yet. But I'm guessing most of us, like me, have one or maybe a handful of moments that threatened to send us into a spiral of despair. A moment that symbolized everything that was wrong with this country. That moment that felt like a political punch in the gut.
Because I'm a curious sort, I want to know what moment haunts you all. Whether it's personal, local, national or international. I'll get the ball rolling on the flip.
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