[georgemcbay]

> Why is this?

Massive gilded-age-levels of wealth inequality that will be politically impossible to address (neither US political party has a unified will to do it due to donor capture, and only the one with less will to do it has any national power currently) until there is a substantial economic crash.

[JKCalhoun]

Yeah, I've been walking around with a signboard reading, "The End is Near, Substantial Economic Crash Soon!" So far, I have always been wrong.