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In reply to the discussion: Did you hear Crystal Ball's rant on the Cycle asking Hillary not to run? [View all]JDPriestly
(57,936 posts)But today the evidence is in. The Piketty book, the dreariness and predominance of cheap imports on Main Street USA not just in small towns but in the less wealthy areas of big cities, stagnant wages, fewer homeowners than in many years, the unmanageably high cost of a good education for most American families, foreclosures, bankruptcies, one of the highest if not the highest incarceration rate in the world, etc., etc. are symptoms of deep problems.
As a nation we seem to have assumed that when a person fails to become economically fairly independent and stable in what most Americans erroneously believe is the richest country in the world, the failure is to be blamed on the individual.
We need to investigate that premise. We haven't really examined it since Reagan was elected, maybe even before that.
Trickle down doesn't work. So what does? As a nation, we need to talk about it.
We are all one. What we do unto the least among us . . . .