Another thing worth noting is the push back against the inequality and corruption of the Gilded Age. This time period is when we had our anti-trust laws and imp

Another thing worth noting is the push back against the inequality and corruption of the Gilded Age. This time period is when we had our anti-trust laws and improvements to them [1]. The narrative that the government was always broken or in the control of corporate interests takes away agency and responsibility from individual citizens. It may be mostly true, but there's enough glimpses of when citizens were able to corral these interests that it's worth not giving up on. 1 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Patman_Act https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson%E2%80%93Patman_Act