The US is an oligarchy

[George Eliot]

16. I think you have it reversed

Following the war, unemployment was about 3% and tax tables were formidable for the richest. We were a country that attempted social and economic justice. It was the time that planted the seeds for so much that succeeded in the sixties (civil rights primarily) and seventies and beyond. Compare that to today. Bigotry is on the rise. Voter suppression is rampant. Much of the civil rights movement is being overturned. Wealth inequality is creating more crime, unemployment, rage. At one time we cared about our infrastructure, education, and housing.

I'm not denying that we have come a long, long way. But many of our advancements trace back to fifties and sixties when the middle class really abounded thanks largely to the tax code, low unemployment and the GI bill which sent many, many kids to college. Can you deny that we are going backwards now? Can you deny that since Reagan our trend is backwards rather than forwards? Mental patients on the streets. Corporate interests paramount? Even our internet is behind: most expensive, slowest, monopolized in the first world. So many of those gains can be lost if we don't protect the common welfare. I agree we've come a long way. But I can see the decline. Can't you?