The United States is, by every reasonable measure, the most unequal of the world’s rich countries and, for more than four decades, it’s been getting worse. After too many years of inaction and complicity, a growing number of Democrats seem to get it. The Republicans and their patrons, on the other hand, are hell-bent on making it worse. Indeed, it’s an essential part of their mission.

https://www.commondreams.org/opinion/american-exceptionalism-economic-inequality