The biggest change over the last four decades — the change lurking behind the insecurities and resentments of the working class — has nothing to do with wokeism or any other Republican bogeymen. It has directly to do with a huge shift in the distribution of income and wealth. - ThreadSky

rbreich.bsky.social • 109 days ago

The biggest change over the last four decades — the change lurking behind the insecurities and resentments of the working class — has nothing to do with wokeism or any other Republican bogeymen.

It has directly to do with a huge shift in the distribution of income and wealth.

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totoroandscience.bsky.social•109 days ago

And the inability for us to vote for women for the presidency. No conversation on the topic of what has happened should move forward without this acknowledgment every time.

katznjazz.bsky.social•109 days ago

When the rich are too rich and the poor are too poor. History.

gingerbitters.bsky.social•109 days ago

100000%

samlia.bsky.social•109 days ago

And yet the poor still vote for the rich to make them poorer 🙃🙃

wendyvotesblue.bsky.social•109 days ago

Unfettered capitalism is humanity’s worst contribution to the universe.

wendyvotesblue.bsky.social•109 days ago

Been saying it! Screaming into the void!

lupusblackfur.bsky.social•109 days ago

Money is speech...

Money is influence...

Money is power...

Money is intelligence...

Money is everything...

Have money, will rule.

🫏🤡🫏🤡

hallijayne.bsky.social•109 days ago

You forgot to say Republican redistribution of wealth.

edmcg.bsky.social•109 days ago

The fact that nobody seems to care about this blows my mind. If they want more babies, make it so a family has the option to thrive on a single income again. We can’t even fathom a single income household anymore.

cyntiadkins.bsky.social•109 days ago

I can understand the anger of the people who haven’t been able to get ahead because the odds were stacked against them. What’s confusing (to me) is the sense of resentment and victimization by some wealthy individuals. The odds are and have been stacked in their favor. Why are they so angry?

sisu4democracy.bsky.social•109 days ago

They listen to the same messaging and they are incapable of self-reflection. They also think they are the next Leon.

cyntiadkins.bsky.social•109 days ago

Hmm. So some of them are angry because they aren’t as wealthy as Leon?

sisu4democracy.bsky.social•109 days ago

You bet. They want more and more while running around in the yachts in MAGA parades. Plus, they are racists.

lunavelvet.bsky.social•109 days ago

If it’s any consolation, I live in a deep red county in Pennsylvania and in my finance class my teacher would show us your videos LOL! So hopefully the next generation won’t be too lost on the subject.

dtf1947.bsky.social•109 days ago

bear55.bsky.social•109 days ago

Agree I would also add education. Pushing so many to college while turning nose up at CC, military, trade school etc. saw it every year teaching

11tulips.bsky.social•108 days ago

YES. I believe it’s precisely this, more than the emblematic price of eggs, that drove this doom juggernaut.

dreid63.bsky.social•109 days ago

Watching the stock market this week has been disturbing and reminds me of shareholders.

kris10l.bsky.social•109 days ago

I don't know....it seems a whole lot of people seem to be content with the idea of petty grievances being worth getting a dictator.

kris10l.bsky.social•109 days ago

Think about Elon as someone out of the box of the Magas we envision..all petty grievances. The whole "woke" thing scared them into being ok with a dictator, when it was only a message to treat people humanely no matter what, since some of their own parents couldn't, along with suicide rates.

jidge.bsky.social•109 days ago

📌

ctqueerguy.bsky.social•109 days ago

And that has allowed billionaires to buy up all the major media.

greenpeaches2.bsky.social•109 days ago

True!

headlessdogman.bsky.social•109 days ago

Evidently, it allowed them to straight up purchase votes

marianami.bsky.social•104 days ago

🎯
Russia in the 1990’s when billionaire oligarchs were buying up their media & pandering to the authoritarian. Didn’t end well for democracy (or them actually).
Hopefully US’s democratic history will help that story end better, but I’m not seeing it.

ctqueerguy.bsky.social•104 days ago

As a member of the military, I’m used to seeing a lot of “freedom because of the brave” implying that freedom is only defended by the military.

I have always said that a free press is just as responsible for liberty, but we as a society don’t understand that.

dasniko80s.bsky.social•109 days ago

And all this started with Reagan, he is patient zero for this disease that has now killed the Republican party...

cheriegrant.bsky.social•109 days ago

And it’s incredibly obvious. Woke being the excuse for the lazy thinker.

housewren.bsky.social•109 days ago

and information

loaferess.bsky.social•108 days ago

Reagan destroyed the middle class. Then our technology outran our biology. We have half the country on one page the other on another page entirely depending on a post code lottery.

loaferess.bsky.social•108 days ago

I believe this is the largest factor

catrinj.bsky.social•109 days ago

It’s a shame nobody with the same views as you would be allowed to become president. Not Bernie in the US, not Corbyn in the UK. Maybe someone could pretend to be a corporate shill then flip once in office.

sleepykitty21.bsky.social•109 days ago

And lack of information for the inequality.
They just voted to deepen that inequality even more

nope-not-today.bsky.social•109 days ago

Absolutely. Jimmy Carter sighted the brewing storm decades ago. We seem to never listen to the wisest among us.
Thank you for all you do. I have learned so much from you. Keep the information flowing.

mymaxknows.bsky.social•109 days ago

If they only knew the source of their real frustration. 😎

mcsweeney.bsky.social•109 days ago

Oligarchy? Dictatorship is already here. He won an election without gaining any more votes then when he lost. He's already figured a way to win with his minority. Once in they're not known to cede power. He already said we'll never have to vote again. We just experienced our first sham election.

shellwe.bsky.social•109 days ago

And misinformation.

jettye.bsky.social•109 days ago

And the huge propaganda network the right-wing has created to keep the wealth flowing upward.

wattajoke.bsky.social•109 days ago

Which is almost entirely within the income tax regime.

superflyallthetime.bsky.social•109 days ago

Crazy to think how advocates of the culture war led their followers to a war against themselves. Can't wait till they figure that one out.

tudorinjordan.bsky.social•109 days ago

and that underpins most of the terrifying failings in this world. . . PLUS I have an unnerving feeling that it is self-reinforcing! show me a single obscenely rich person who doesn't want more; and more!! (ok there just may be one or two, but it is vanishingly unusual)

danrofohio.bsky.social•109 days ago

And yet the disaffected voted for the billionaires. The world is insane.

mstefan.bsky.social•109 days ago

Misogyny and racism is one helluva drug ...

linmando.bsky.social•109 days ago

Basically, the problem is “trickle-down” economics

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