🇺🇲 Attack of The Middle Class, Shocking Reason Reagan Tried To Kill The Middle Class: T. Hartmann

[appalachiablue]

Ronald Reagan wanted to stop the Middle Class because he believed this lie the Republicans are still selling. (1 year ago, 5:40 mins).

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A large middle class stabilizes a country! The greater the disparity between rich and poor, the less stable a country.

We should be moving to a situation where the Middle Class is 80% of the population.

In the richest nation in the world not one person should be homeless or hungry people.

If America doesn't have a strong middle class it has nothing.
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- Further Reading:

'The upper middle class is now the largest income group in the U.S., study finds,' CBS News, April 10, 2026. American Enterprise Inst.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/upper-middle-class-income-us-what-it-takes/

Drastic Cuts to Safety Net Make US Unlivable
https://democraticunderground.com/1016426893

America's Not OK': Surveys, Wellbeing Steep Decline, Rising Costs, Job Insecurity, Economy, Social Media
https://democraticunderground.com/1016426813

The United States Is Destroying Itself, R. Solnit
https://democraticunderground.com/100221168100

[appalachiablue]

1. MORE, Reduce the Middle Class; Reaganomics/Trickle Down Economics, Austerity, Cuts

MORE, Death of the Middle Class, Trickle Down Economics, Reaganomics. (1 yr ago, 10 mins).

[pansypoo53219]

3. tinkle down was just more if the same. grover norquist's wet dream to kill federalism.

+ reverse robin hood.

neo feudalism.

[appalachiablue]

5. Feudal is it! Thanks for posting.

[The Wizard]

2. Cheap labor

means greater profits for the bribing class.

[appalachiablue]

4. Owners also fought unions, better wages. Immigrants, children, needy people often take what they can, compliant.

[blue_jay]

6. Hope more people have figured this out

I mean really connected the progression of how our country got to this place of inequality and backslid from where we were when more people could live off of one income. I know the video is from the last election cycle but this is a great and concise synopsis of the history and how we got to this point economically and politically. So tired of people spouting the trickle down theory. Thanks for all the references and details in the links.

[appalachiablue]

7. Backslid is right. Costs also increased when there were 2 incomes with women working. That meant

more money to grab and a way to keep people in line. Don't want workers to have too much income, security and comfort. Instead keep them on edge and compliant so they won't cause trouble or make demands.

This was and is still done in many societies with men, dependent, powerless women and children and of course bound slaves with no wages.

[appalachiablue]

8. MORE, Can The Reagan Revolution Be Stopped? Trickle Down, Reaganomics: Thom Hartmann

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* 2020, (10 mins).

* 2024.