Originally shared by David Brin

Originally shared by David Brin

All right, this is Mother Jones.  Still, any conservative American who actually has the guts to look at these graphics will come away realizing that we truly are at 1933 again.  And that we will need to do something about skyrocketing wealth disparities that threatened every past generation of the American Experiment. And that Supply Side Voodoo Economics assurances have by now proved 100% lies.

 Past generations found reasonable, compromise solutions and negotiated pragmatically to both keep vibrant capitalist flat-open-fair competition AND maintain social mobility.  

Indeed, it is to prevent such negotiations that today’s oligarchs have financed the destruction of politics in the US (e.g. the “Hastert Rule” that no republican may ever negotiate with democrats, over anything, ever.) It is for that reason that the right spares no effort to call Franklin Roosevelt the same thing as Satan Incarnate… even though our parents in the Greatest Generation adored him more than any other human being.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/charts-income-inequality-recession-survival-richest

Fact, is, FDR effectively SAVED capitalism and the wealthy, in America.  The aristo fools who demonize him and seek to restore feudalism seem too stupid to realize the alternative to a middle class America — such as FDR built — is not feudalism… but tumbrels.  They should be the ones seeking a new Roosevelt.
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/10/charts-income-inequality-recession-survival-richest