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I think it could be important for the US to have a new frontier. Maybe what we can do is send all these progressive
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socialists off to Greenland to tame this new frontier. It is kind of interesting
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as I remember from my high school history. I think the frontier was officially over by 1910, meaning every
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latitude and longitude had been sort of settled. And that is when the progressive era kind of began. And I do
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kind of wonder whether the frontier was this like escape valve for pressure that
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builds up, you know, resentments that build up in the economy. People could always just go west and become pioneers
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and find new territory. And in a way, that's what America was for Europe, right? I mean, Europe was sort of this
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overcrowded place. It was oppressive. And people just left. They could opt out by going to America and settling over in
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what would become the United States. And I kind of wonder whether maybe we need something like that again as an escape
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hatch for all the discontents so they don't become democratic socialists of America.