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Almost everyone I know is in the middle class and they are all doing just fine. Weird I know.
If you look at people who are doing well then, unsurprisingly, most seem to be doing well.
If you look at the people who are being left behind, some will still be in the middle class - for now. But wealth inequality is and has been rising for a while now.
Complacency = Complicity
Doesn't mean you can't go out, work hard and make a nice happy life for yourself in the middle class.
They aren't a threat to the country and democracy, but keep your head in the sand.
The wealthy have been faced with this choice:
1. Pay more tax to fight climate change in an effort to make the planet safe for everyone;
--OR--
2. Pay less tax, use that money to make chunks of the planet safe for themselves, and screw everyone else.
Conveniently, there's a party representing each point of view.
Funny how that works.
Robert Reich should read Federalist Paper #10.
Madison figured that shit out 236 years ago:
From this view of the subject it may be concluded that a pure democracy, by which I mean a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person, can admit of no cure for the mischiefs of faction. A common passion or interest will, in almost every case, be felt by a majority of the whole; a communication and concert result from the form of government itself; and there is nothing to check the inducements to sacrifice the weaker party or an obnoxious individual. Hence it is that such democracies have ever been spectacles of turbulence and contention; have ever been found incompatible with personal security or the rights of property; and have in general been as short in their lives as they have been violent in their deaths. Theoretic politicians, who have patronized this species of government, have erroneously supposed that by reducing mankind to a perfect equality in their political rights, they would, at the same time, be perfectly equalized and assimilated in their possessions, their opinions, and their passions.
I need to rewatch Don't Look Up.
YOU should probably read it. Because you are missing the key points there.
And fewer (and less) taxes and regulations for them! Let’s not forget that.
As if the tech bubble, housing bubble, and COVID wouldn’t have occurred?
The president wasn’t the driving factor in any of those.
It’s like someone laying a zodiac over this timeline and telling me most job losses occur in the age of Aquarius.
Well, for one - with adequate regulation in place, the "housing bubble" would NOT have occurred at all.
With adequate preparation, Covid would have had less impact.
Bush Jr's invasion of Iraq is the single biggest blunder of any politician since Nam. The psychological and financial damage done to the country will take a generation to wipe away. The Patriot Act was and is still criminal and zero presidents did away with it.
The Supreme Court got loaded up with right wing Jack wads. Citizen's United is a huge problem.
Clinton should own the housing bubble of 2008, but Bush Jr did nothing to stop it.
Plucking out the chart that should make a lot of jaws drop.
Basically if you aren't in the top 1% you're going to be worse off.
And the worse off you are now, the even more worse off you're going to be.
Not at all the woke left rant about the wealthy not paying taxes when in reality the top 1% pay 99% of the money paid into the tax system.
Policies live long lives. His policies have fuuukkkeedd us for decades.
Policies don’t just impact this weekend. They last until they are changed.
How old are you?
Harris/Bidens open border policy is going to impact this nation for decades, that's for sure.
LOL - So? Project 2025 is basically a White Paper and nothing else, except it has zero to do with Donald Trump.Start another thread, yo
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