Let me ask. How many of you actually know someone who started out without 2 nickels to rub together and who became wealthy before they were deaf and feeble? Not just comfortable. I’m talking real wealth. And not illegally either. Let’s set a minimum of a measly million. And we’re assured recently that a million these days doesn’t mean what it used to.
I've met a few.
America, 'the land of opportunity', actually has less economic mobility than any other developed nation-nevermind emerging economies like China, India, Thailand and Vietnam.
Simply put, we've allowed capitalism to run amok, forgetting the lessons our grandparents learned the hard way back in the 1930s. Both political parties are complicit, grabbing at the cash with both hands, no matter what the consequences for the vast majority of their constituents.
That's why I support 'the squad', Bernie Sanders, Ro Khanna, Tulsi Gabbard, and leading political thinkers like Robert Reich, Larry Lessig, Mark Blyth and Richard Wolff.
Our capitalist system is broken, on a runaway track downhill to disaster. The two establishment parties make a big show of fighting over the controls but both are too busy making money to really want to change anything. This explains the outrageous spectacle of Nancy Pelosi ignoring members of her own party and defending an autocratic President against the impeachment proceeding he so richly deserves to save a nation that so badly needs the demonstration of accountability.
