The proletariat do not get to seize from the elites until it gets so bad that there is no other option. Artificial Intelligence may be a game changer, maybe not.

@Surfpirate and yet Senator Warren has been talking about wealth tax for weeks!

@Killtheskyfairy When Sen Warren turned on Bernie it said a lot about who held the reins to her bridle. So much money and power with such an agenda, bend a knee or lose your head.

@Surfpirate I saw Bernie and his bros attacking Warren long before she’d had enough. The sexism was glaring and the snakes were in his camp.

@Killtheskyfairy Thank goodness there are sane men like Ted Cruz to keep the country on track then.

@Surfpirate Yeah, because nothing screams republican like a liberal Democrat calling out Bernie gaslighting nonsense.

Same as it ever was....

@Canndue Yes...but it doesn’t have to be so.

@Marionville I agree, and how many decades have gone by with no change. The wealthy protect themselves very well.

@Canndue
... no change in a positive direction. But a definite change toward increasing extremes of wealth in recent decades.

@nicestuff yeah, there is always some up and down movement. Just enough to adjust popular opinion sufficient to prevent real change. Democracy is cruel like religion, promises you hope, but never really delivers....

@Canndue They have their gated communities, secure private compounds for the super rich, with high tech security and their own private security forces. They don't even need the cops to protect them in most cases, unless a mob of thousands showed up with guns, in which case they would call in the cops to help out.

@TomMcGiverin funny thing is most people are ok that there are wealthy and poor, it’s just the disparity is so great

@Canndue The majority of them are ok with it because they have the delusion that someday either they or their children will become rich. They are sorely mistaken.

@TomMcGiverin you are right, the American dream....

@Canndue As George Carlin used to say, " They call it the American Dream because you have to be asleep to believe in it", well, I would add, you have to be asleep if you are sane and rational...