In the 1970s, the top one percent received eight percent of national income. By 2007, their share had tripled, to 23 percent…
The rich have gotten a great deal richer. Everyone else has stood still
… In the face of that staggering social revolution, are you aware of any politics or political messaging on the left which has tried to encompass this revolution? Have liberal entities even tried to make the public aware of this change? Have liberal entities tried to build political frameworks in which average people of the left, the center and the right can see their obvious common interest in confronting this revolution?
Actually, no—you have not. And by the way: Average people of the left and the right are the joint victims on this vast grab of wealth at the top. Progressives will never be able to address this revolution as long as average people are split into two warring camps, with big dumb nuts like Ed Schultz and Sean Hannity encouraging the two rival tribes to despise one another.
Hannity serves the interests of wealth and power. Whose interests does Ed Schultz serve?
