The last Gilded Age was followed by a Progressive Era and this one will be too. People will only take so much. America has self-corrected in the past and we’re going to self-correct again.
3/ Are Democrats better? A thousand times yes. But no longer can that be used as a pass. Democrats not standing for what Democrats are supposed to stand for is how we got Trump to begin with & if Democrats don’t act like Democrats again then Trump or someone like him will be back
2/ There’s been a massive theft of public resources into the hands of a tiny few & people have every reason to be outraged. GOP started the theft but Democrats haven’t stopped it. Neither political party should feel proud of itself. People recognize they’ve been betrayed by both.
1/ In the 1970s the average American worker had a job with good benefits, could afford to own a house and a car, could afford a yearly vacation, one parent could stay at home if they wanted, and they could send mulitple kids to college.
There’s a lot the market can do and a lot the market cannot do. The purpose of government is to balance individual freedom - including economic freedom - with concern for the common good. Right now it protects the economic freedom of a tiny few at the expense of the common good.