Middle America has been economically gang banged for decades, and used as a GD punching bag as their standard of living declined, wages declined, benefits declined, and retirement pensions were decimated, all while the rich got richer and government became more controlling, more intrusive and larger.
Otherwise, at this rate you'll have a country of nothing but wealthy with a 3rd world work force of low wage peasants. And that's exactly where it's going now.
That will hopefully come to a halt and reverse course.
Speak for yourself. I’m earning more than my parents ever did because I went to college and learned a marketable, technology-based skill. If you’re not successful, it’s your own fault, no one else’s.