--Tango here. For whatever reason, my account seems to have been prevented from replying. But ignoring the strawman, I think you asked a really interesting ques

--Tango here. For whatever reason, my account seems to have been prevented from replying. But ignoring the strawman, I think you asked a really interesting question. I was looking into information on the chiseling out of the middle class. I had assumed that most people were becoming poor (as many in this thread also assume). But it turns out that we, as a whole, are becoming far wealthier than ever before while the number of people living in society with minimal spending power continues to decline. This reality is not even remotely accurately reflected by the media and I'd imagine the vast majority of Americans have no idea about the economic trajectory of this country. In particular I've been fairly involved in socio-political discussion for years now and it came as a jaw dropper to me! I suppose the most fundamental change I had was in realizing that what we've been doing the past decades has been doing a phenomenally good job of improving society. Of course we can always do better, but we're at least on the right track.