The Future of the un-United States

Nikki Broadwell

4 min readMar 19

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No, this photo isn’t us protesting about anything. It is France out in force because Macron raised the pension age by TWO years. From 62 to 64. They refuse to go along with this kind of shit. Republicans want to change our medicare age from 65 to 70. Because of life expectancy, they say. Our life expectancy is actually going down. But the French want to live, not work. They want to drink wine and enjoy things. Many of us here…

Nikki Broadwell

Written by Nikki Broadwell

In my real life I’m a fantasy/mystery author. What I’ve written so far on Medium have been political opinion pieces. But that is changing!

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