Politically speaking, a lack of trust inspires people to overthrow political incumbents, but they also simultaneously overthrow dominant notions in themselves. Unfortunately, the dominant notion in Michigan since the 1980s when the Republican Party whose leadership was just overthrown in the state legislature was the misguided optimism of Reagan, that Michigan was just as competitive as other states, and not a backwater. Now doubt has crept into the discourse about everything under the topic. What people fail to see is that optimism was for a certain grouping of the rich and powerful when those pronouncements were made, in the Reagan years, and though they have not been democratized to the workingman, they still can be...
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