As a society,

[Uncle Joe]

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This is a fascinating link, you can watch the little ratios change over time but they only seem to be going in one direction, why is that?

Distribution of Household Wealth in the U.S. since 1989

https://www.federalreserve.gov/releases/z1/dataviz/dfa/distribute/table/

and people want to know how a morbid narcissist, demagogue came to power that threatened the very foundations of our democratic republic!

[anti stupid]

1. this is

economic feudalism: planned by the wealthy and big business and executed by their hoar Republican politicians.

[BeckyDem]

2. It didn't happen overnight and not by accident.

K&R for the hope we can change this in time.

[Uncle Joe]

3. I agree on all counts BeckyDem, I also believe

the primary reason a Trump type hadn't come to power sooner is because our nation's long Constitutional durability bought us time that lesser developed nations didn't/don't have.

Furthermore, I believe we as nation and for that matter all democratic nations need to wake up to the threat posed by global oligarchy.

[BeckyDem]

4. True. I will tell you what scares me versus what I believe the country needs regarding

legislation. I say this because poll after poll tells us how many Americans agree on legislation from workers pay to climate change, Medicare drug negotiations etc..we already know what Americans support and it is much better than some think.

Scares me: The Electoral College is undemocratic, Americans did not want Trump and they did not give him the majority vote. It really did not matter that Clinton was weak in some states, she still beat him. No one even talks about working to get rid of it.

Scares me: Voting rights act, if we do not secure it, we will pay a high price, worse than now.

The filibuster is not a constitutional requirement, it must be changed.

We must try and get more senators elected and keep the GOP out of power for at least a decade, no exaggeration.

I'm not a doom and gloom person, but I am getting anxious.