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Sometime, just for fun, look up what Orson Welles was doing during the Great Depression.

It's not that we can't do this here. It's that generations of conservative politicians have convinced us we shouldn't.
The right says that want to "make America great again"... we once had a federally funded theater program that brought people art and culture and the news of the day for very little in federal funding, and helped provide employment to actors, artists, laborers...
... even temporarily displaced professionals could get a job in the theater crew.

The right talks about the dignity of work but isn't interested in supplying either work nor dignity.
Their idea of greatness is the land of American't. Can't come here, we're full. Can't afford healthcare. Can't afford infrastructure. Can't afford this, can't afford that.
The federal theater program was defunded for being insufficiently racist to not count as Communism.
Just so you can see how long this has been going on.
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