[Bon mots]

That’s why the country doesn’t look like it did in 1930, even though the economy may actually be worse.

It's a Potemkin façade;
The modern bread line is over 48 million people long now, it's called "Food Stamps".
They've only modernized it and 'Potemkinized it' (removed it from view).
48 million people wait in that bread line every month for their food stamps.

[headsonpikes]

“The modern bread line is over 48 million people long now, it’s called “Food Stamps”.”

The very purpose of the so-called “Welfare State” is to create a ‘clientele class’ riotously supportive of the ruling oligarchy, the same corrupting process as led to the inward collapse of the Roman Republic, and will lead to the collapse of this one.

All of this will be obvious in hindsight.