Reply #48: great chart!

[dreamnightwind]

Thanks for posting that, it really makes it clear! Though I'm sure most of us intuitively knew this, I'm still surprised that it lays out that reality so starkly. I think the distribution of wealth charts show much the same trend lines over the same time period.

So, the task is immense, we have to re-educate much of the nation about what has happened since Reagan and his Mourning In America rode into town on his fake horse.

This is what angers me so much about getting Democrats into power, finally, and seeing only small, superficial changes to the previous right-wing policies. This country, as you said, took a hard right turn in 1980, and no small tweaks will bring it back. That's why we have to advocate for true progressive reform and not settle for republican-light.

Thanks again for this thread.