Let's be clear. Class warfare in this country is intensifying.

[Uncle Joe]

Link to tweet

Link to tweet

[BeckyDem]

1. K&R

[gab13by13]

2. We have always had it,

especially in the justice system.

Back in 1969 my college professor told us there are 2 systems of justice, 1 for the rich and 1 for the poor.

Speaking of which, did Matt Gaetz' daddy get his case dropped?

[DENVERPOPS]

6. The seditionists are getting charged........

and at least some put in jail......but has anyone in the entire Trump Administration, his cabinet, or Republican Senators been charged, or actually sent to prison????

[NJCher]

9. Merrick Garland speaking tomorrow

But it doesn't sound like he'll be addressing those involved in the plot. Nevertheless, here's a link about when he's speaking:

https://politicalwire.com/2022/01/03/merrick-garland-will-give-speech-on-january-6/#disqus_thread

[kairos12]

8. Innocent until proven

broke.

Our “Justice” system.

[DENVERPOPS]

10. WASF nc

[leftstreet]

3. DURec

[Doc Sportello]

4. K&R n/t

[ancianita]

5. I love Bernie. But he's only half right. Race war is intensifying, too. EG, DeSantis pressers.

[bucolic_frolic]

7. Ironically

I think that's what MAGA world sees too, they see themselves as deprived and wanting and expecting to live like TFG, but they turn their anger against the libs and taxes to pay for the social safety net, whereas libs focus on corporations/capitalism. Oppressed potential and social antagonisms are a necessary precursor to political upheaval, well documented by Prof. Crane Brinton in his ancient classic The Anatomy of Revolution.

[Kid Berwyn]

11. Thank you, Uncle Joe!

Here’s more on the subject…

Inequality in America: Far Beyond Extreme

The maldistribution of America’s income and wealth has reached levels that our conventional economic stats have trouble revealing.

by Bob Lord
OCTOBER 12, 2020, Inequality.Org

We’ve all seen the stats on America’s extreme inequality. Over 20 percent of our nation’s income flows to the top 1 percent. The top 1 percent’s share of our country’s wealth is approaching 40 percent. Our top 0.1 percent hold roughly the same share of our wealth as our bottom 90 percent.

All eye-popping numbers to be sure. But don’t be fooled. These numbers understate our problem. And not by just a little.

Let’s consider, for a moment, what our income and wealth numbers are really telling us. Statistics on how we share our wealth right now tell us where things stand, but not how we ended up where we stand — or where we’re heading. Stats on how we share our income don’t tell us anything about how we’re sharing in wealth’s accumulation.

Take, for instance, the value of the Jeff Bezos Amazon fortune. If this value doubles, the increase doesn’t register anywhere as “income” for Bezos until he sells his Amazon stock. And the resulting income numbers don’t reflect what living expenses and taxes consume.

So our conventional measures of income and wealth don’t tell the whole story. We need to know more about how our society is sharing the real wealth we create, more about what remains from the fruits of our collective efforts after we take into account all the costs involved and after adjusting for inflation and population growth.

Through that lens, we see a rather gruesome picture.

Of America’s inflation- and population-adjusted increase in wealth between 2006 and 2018, over 87 percent went to the top 10 percent. Over 60 percent went to the top 1 percent. The top .01 percent, a baseball-park-sized group of just 32,669 Americans, grabbed over 23 percent of the country’s increase in wealth.

And nearly 10 percent of that increase went to the 400 wealthiest Americans.

Continues…

https://inequality.org/great-divide/inequality-in-america-far-beyond-extreme/