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> …if your solution requires perpetual majority control of legislative, executive, and judicial branches, your solution is in fact a campaign slogan.

I suspect Social Security would have met that definition at one point in time. Perhaps even paid overtime, the 40-hour work-week, etc.



Sort of. They were not campaign slogans though. They were battle cries, by militant labor, insisting on what they deserved.




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