Reply #15: changing one's viewpoint--conscientization, is probably better than

[MisterP]

simple (even factual) argument: if they see themselves as part of a 99% rather than a "donor" 54%, that's a bigger step than simply telling them we have a greater wealth disparity than Brazil--under their old viewpoint, Nigerian-level inequality is a sign that the US isn't wallowing in Communist poverty like the other 220 nations on the planet: get them to stop believing that framework and you can do a lot more
though of course we should keep telling everyone the US's GINI!
just like the yutzy upper-class Orange Countyan in the dental chair next to me--if you beleive America's the best country in every way, that we're the land of opportunity, our problems are no problems at all: unemployment is caused only by laziness, government needs to get off our productive backs, and employees aren't profitable