One of the eternal mysteries of modern American politics is the societal taboo on discussion of class. Class, in the sense of the truly upper class, multi-millionaire, CFO/CEO/old money/landed gentry, vs. the wage-earning masses (like me). It’s not that I have it out for the rich. But why can’t the fact that we have obscenely rich people with inherently different economic interests than work-a-day folks (like me) ever even be mentioned on the teevee?

My guess is that many of the decision makers, (e.g., Senior VP of whatnot at News Corp, GE, or Viacom,  or high-profile politicians, pundits, and other talking heads) are either part of, or trying to claw their way into, that very upper class. And so those with their hands on the wheel do all they can to avoid confronting the vast and rapidly expanding gulf between ‘the regular folks’ and the economic elite. Because that would be class warfare. Right.

Plutocracy Reborn

Income Gap and Marginal Tax Rate 1917-2006 at Visualizing Economics

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