Somehow, Republicans Are Considered the Friends of the American Workers

The top 1% has proven itself amazingly effective in convincing working class Americans that their woes are rooted in things like loose border control, political correctness, big government, and the other boogeymen associated with the Democrats.

Guess what the rich think about the slogan: Tax The Rich.  And give them credit for arranging the belief system of those in the lower half economically, who currently would no more approve of tax hikes for billionaires than they would elect Vladimir Lenin to the White House.

Moreover, addressing this misunderstanding is no easier than correcting wrong ideas in epidemiology, climate science, or any of the other subjects in which massive ignorance is so strongly entrenched.

This started to go the wrong way under Reagan, who lowered the top marginal tax rates from 70% to 28%, and paid for it by taxing the social security benefits that the working class had toiled its entire adult life to earn.  Yet when he left office in 1989, the common American considered him a hero.

Wish I had better news for these people, and for our nation as a whole.