Wealth Inequality in America

Courtesy of a facebook friend:



Needless to say, the super-rich can and do use this massive wealth imbalance to control US political structures, at all levels of government, thereby rendering the notion of democracy, or, at least, the concept of representatives executing the people's will, a moot point.  Indeed, contemporary American politics looks exactly like one would expect them to look if you've got a plutocracy disguised as a democratic republic: totally dysfunctional as far as democracy goes, but startlingly effective in terms of funneling buttloads of cash to people who already have buttloads of cash.

I grieve for this country every day.

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