The vast majority of people, and all progressives, fail to understand that an economy is first and foremost the product of a culture.
The creation of the great American middle class was the product of a great American culture — we were a people who held traditional values in high esteem and exhibited a high degree of individual initiative, hard work, sacrificing for the future, commitment to family and children, etc.
The reason our economy is trending in the direction of a Latin American-style economy of a small class of uber-wealthy and a great mass of poor people longing for socialism along with a relatively small middle class is because our culture is trending in the direction of a Latin American-style culture.
The progressives have caused an explosion in the percent of poor people in the country by massive importation of the Latin American peasantry and by the destruction of the traditional family, especially among African-Americans.
The constituency of the progressives is government employees and government dependents (broadly defined, including for example university faculty living off of bloated tuition subsidized directly or indirectly by government).
What the progressives do is to attack and loot the rest of society in order to reward its constituency of government employees and government dependents, which is why the middle class is weakened and shriveling.
Gee that’s well said.
Well said. The progressives’ jihad to create their “new man,” inevitably destroys foundational institutions. That which makes us Americans must be ripped out, root and branch. They are well on their way to achieving their goal.