Elizabeth Warren: "...That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare." [View all]

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http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-elizabeth-warren-convention-20150516-story.html

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In her speech, Warren also sketched the historical narrative that has helped fuel her rise in public life, portraying the U.S. as a country whose middle class, after close to a century of prosperity, has been hollowed by conservative policies from the 1980s on.

She said the governorship of former President Ronald Reagan in the Golden State was "the epicenter of the earthquake that shook the middle class to its core."

"Trickle-down economics was nothing more than political cover for helping the rich and powerful get richer and more powerful," she said.

Today, Warren said, "This country isn't working for working people. It's working only for people at the top. That's not the American dream. That's the American nightmare."

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