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This smokejumper says the US has lost its empathy. That’s why he’s running for Congress

Montana’s Sam Forstag says US working class is left playing a game of chance while neither party serves its interests

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Montana’s Sam Forstag says US working class is left playing a game of chance while neither party serves its interests At around five o’clock on a winter evening in 2013, then college student Sam Forstag was driving through a snowstorm toward his third job of the day, making sandwiches at the Subway inside a Walmart.

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