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On the Issues Income and Wealth Inequality

https://berniesanders.com/issues/income-and-wealth-inequality/ Today, we live in the richest country in the history of the world, but that reality means little because much of that wealth is controlled by a tiny handful of individuals. The issue of wealth and income inequality is the great moral issue of our time, it is the great economic issue of our time, and it is the great political issue of our time. America now has  more wealth and income inequality  than any major developed country on earth, and the  gap between the very rich and everyone else  is wider than at any time since the 1920s.
Nancy Pelosi's speech after Democrats took the House in recent US elections was not just a huge disappointment. Many progressives became furious about her empty speech, which was full of the most obsolete political generalities and cliches. But it was not just that Pelosi didn't want to committ that Democrats will fight for specific issues - in favor of the vast majority of Americans - that returned in the political debate by Bernie Sanders and the progressive movement. She actually 'gave the finger' to the progressives straight and clear. http://failedevolution.blogspot.com/2018/11/recent-us-elections-confirmed-that.html