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Sunday, September 4th, 2022

The US has a ruling class – and Americans must stand up to it

Author:     Bernie Sanders
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Fri 2 Sep 2022 | 06.15 EDT
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Stephan:   In the interest of full disclosure, I should say that I was a Washington state delegate for Bernie Sanders. In my view, he has a very clear and accurate take on American society. In this short piece he lays out what he sees as the central problem of our society. He understand that we must make wellbeing our first priority if we are to have a truly functional society; it is a view with which I am in full agreement. The wealth inequality in the U.S. is obscene and dangerous.
‘While the working class falls further behind, multibillionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos and Richard Branson are off taking joyrides on rocket ships to outer space, buying $500m super-yachts and living in mansions with 25 bathrooms.’ Credit: Pablo Martínez Monsiváis / AP

Let’s be clear. The most important economic and political issues facing this country are the extraordinary levels of income and wealth inequality, the rapidly growing concentration of ownership, the long-term decline of the American middle class and the evolution of this country into oligarchy.

We know how important these issues are because our ruling class works overtime to prevent them from being seriously discussed. They are barely mentioned in the halls of Congress, where most members are dependent on the campaign contributions of the wealthy and their Super Pacs. They are not much discussed in the corporate media, in which a handful of conglomerates determine what we see, hear and discuss.

So what’s going on?

We now have more income and wealth inequality than at any time in the last hundred years. In the year 2022, three multibillionaires own […]

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1 Comment

  1. Rev. Dean on Tuesday, September 6, 2022 at 12:23 am

    The type of inequality here in the USA is as undemocratic as it could ever could have been imagined when the Constitution was written. We may need to overhaul it for the twenty-first century.