Any society where the rich get richer and fewer, and the poor get poorer and more numerous, is inherently unstable, both socially and politically. This state of affairs cannot continue indefinitely. Conflict, and eventually civil unrest,is inevitable. The result is either revolutionary violence in an effort to produce change, or reactionary oppression in an effort to prevent it. Communism or Fascism.

Wealth is the source of political power, except in a democracy. It also strongly influences the public debate. The only way to avoid having to choose between a dictatorship of the left or right, between revolution and reaction, is to identify those who tend to benefit from the increasing inequality of wealth, and its institutionalization as government policy. And the best way to do that is to listen to what they say, and how they justify their actions. Those who will benefit from this inequality, or who believe they can benefit from it, will be readily apparent.

Americans today, whether they be on the left or right, know what is happening. They know that, as a rule, they will be poorer than their parents, and that their children will be poorer than they are. This is now becoming apparent, and after a century of economic progress and the creation of a growing and prosperous middle class, the retrograde shift to a nineteenth century socioeconomic model is now becoming apparent.