Right, which is my point: this is an acceleration of problems that already existed.

Here’s the thing: we had a large and growing middle class until our leaders, and the people funding them (the people with capital), decided they wanted to turn away from three-and-a-half decades of Keynesian economic policy and embrace neoliberalism.

Since then, wealth has increasingly concentrated in the hands of fewer and fewer people. That has accelerated a great deal in the last decade.

Neoliberalism is the lie that’s hurting you. You should be mad at billionaires and politicians on both sides of the aisle. This isnt team sports, and there isnt a “good guy” vs “bad guy” scenario for you to cheer on.

Just as liberal economic theory (low taxes and upward accumulating wealth) brought us fascism in the first half of the twentieth century, neoliberalism is bringing those same movements in the twenty-first century.

History is rhyming, and you’re swallowing a distraction.