We are now living in a full blown plutocracy and heading toward an oligarchy. The largest economy in the world and half the citizens can't keep their nostrils above water!

is how far in debt those families in the 49% have fallen. Click on the credit card delinquencies by state in the study. Wanna guess the states with the highest percentages of delinquencies?

Washington has to be blamed for spreading the designer coffee addiction and California for avocado this and avocado that. Ask Bill Maher...he knows about the jungle in CA where they are grown.

Hard to tell these days.

Should be Democrat’s next campaign slogan.

to solve our chronic messaging problems during campaigns. The results of this study should be trumpeted far and wide. A guest on NPR mentioned it today, but I haven't seen any references to it in the MSM.

a short time ago.

of a feudal lord. We serfs should feel lucky we have his "protection". After all, he has set up the Trump Accounts which will surely make our children rich someday.

until we take to the streets. Or finally start voting en masse to defeat incumbents.

Since 2017? Earnings for who?

I would say that it's likely the surging upper earners have inflated that number. I am painfully aware that my teacher pension and social security benefits ain't doin' much.

is we don’t work anywhere near long or hard enough to live the lavish lifestyles to which we’ve become accustomed.
Our Government has allowed itself to be overtaken by wealthy overlords who will NEVER allow themselves to be lowered to the level where they feel the pinch. Trump has NEVER been in a retail establishment without a camera crew. He’s never payed for anything himself, and doesn’t care how much things cost because he's using other-peoples'-money.
The Oligarchists got together and took the reins and set about eliminating any Power Labor had to be an advocate for the vast majority of Americans who work for a paycheck. If the subject of Labor comes up, it’s in the form of liabilities to the bottom line. That’s what “inflation” is… your paycheck. They will “negotiate” among themselves for the materials they need, but Labor has to take what they grudgingly give to a lone “applicant” who is free to “take the deal” or “take-a-walk”.
Unions went a long way toward building a strong middle class. Guess what happened when they were emasculated?
Conservatives will NEVER understand what an Economy is as long as they think they are the only ones in it.

Trump and his billionaire (and trillionaire) buddies' new interest in adding Greenland and Canada to our realm is to secure "lebensraum" to which locales We, the Serfs will be deported to live in subsistence mode.

For the Lebensborn.
And they can burn the cripples where nice people don’t have to smell it.
It’s good to have a plan.
You can’t make this shit up.
Somebody already did.
And MY conspiracy Theory is that this is the same lot who tried this ninety years ago and nearly pulled it off. They’ve since tweaked the plan and moved the core of their operation to the US, and have been building the skids since Roosevelt died. I think they’d been grooming the Felon since he was in the Asshole Academy.

The old adage that you can't win an argument if you bring up a Nazi comparison is now out of date. We have no idea how far they will go if we keep electing them and Project 2025 is fully implemented.

Why don't the poor have stock portfolios that could supplement their incomes?

In a March 2026 post on X (formerly Twitter), Scott asked followers to imagine putting $500 into a savings or investment account every month from age 18 to 65. I've never had even an extended family member who could afford to do that.

in their first stupid projekt 2029 release from what I read. I'm sorry, this isn't bashing, but if that's sincerely the most important thing to them they gotta go and fast. Saving this country and fighting the money in our politic, which the above supposed #1 issue makes me extremely suspect is filling their pockets too, better be first and foremost or I may be finished. That's not the party I've fought with to save this country for my entire life. I don't get it I really don't.
Sorry, it just enraged me this week.

about the GOP having all the irrelevant wedge issues.

With this economy, and the blatant racism and open corruption of public officials, are we getting great again, or what?

modern-day robber barons and the GOP version of Tammany Hall running the show.