Machines | Gilded Age Politics:Crash Course US History #26
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7:10 - And yet we're supposed to believed the party's switched politics all of a sudden in the 1970s.
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I have this mighty urge to reach through the screen & fix John's collar.
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I know that you are a major know-it-all, John, so I hate to correct you: all politics is local. Just because you say that's not actually true doesn't make it so. Every political scientist has said its true for the last 50 years.
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I am a Stalwart and Arthur is President now
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2:25 cheeky bastard with that 2112 reference XD
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New York WAS the center of business after all....Huh what you lookin' at?
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ahhh so the gilded age was a libertarian paradise. What a shock that it was a hell hole for the regular man.
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That Rush reference at 2:26 :)
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Could you talk any faster? I have answers to right down on a paper and can't do it because I can't write as fast as you talk.
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5:55
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10:07 The Federal Reserve is not part of the government.
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Hey I'm from Omaha. What do you have against us John?
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how did the populist party form and what was their platform?
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omaha stylee
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can u do one on the wizard of oz
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Corruption and 2016. Wow, history repeats itself again!
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cool undertaker and Vince sr.
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The economist recently wrote an article saying that the populist party could be returning for the 2020 election. What does that mean for the U.S.?
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Incredibly corrupt LIKE MY A gets tackled
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hey guys he is does not have shoes on lol