If “Good Government” Doesn’t Make American Lives Better Soon, the Coup of 2024 is Inevitable

We must expose the real threat to liberty

Thom Hartmann
5 min readJan 28, 2021
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You think things are bad in America now? Wait until hungry heads-of-households stop hoping for help and start stealing from stores or kicking in doors to get food for their kids. It’s already starting to happen.

We’re in an unacknowledged Second Republican Great Depression.

One in six families with children “lacked sufficient food in the past 7 days.” A survey completed just two weeks ago found fully 46 percent of American children live in renter households that are behind on their rent or lack sufficient food or both.

Americans once pulled together, and government worked

America’s seen hard times before. But those difficult times weren’t compounded by a political movement arguing that government shouldn’t do anything to help.

Growing up in the 1950s, my parents told me about their childhoods’ during what was then still called The Republican Great Depression.

My mom taught me how to squeeze the last little bit of toothpaste out of a tube by squeezing it in the hinge-side of a door, and how to ration toilet paper, two squares at a time…

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Thom Hartmann
Thom Hartmann

Written by Thom Hartmann

America’s #1 progressive talk show host & NY Times bestselling author. Thom’s writings also appear at HartmannReport.com.

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