Income Inequality Continues to Rise Amidst Greater Globalization: The Governing Elite Cares for Neither Democracy nor the Middle Class. Since the election of Donald Trump we have been hearing a lot about “our democracy” and “threats to it.” For those on the left, his election is nothing less than a threat to our democracy because his opponent won the popular vote. Although he won the electoral college which is in the U.S. constitution, the left simply responds that it needs t

It has long been a truism of American politics that to win the party nomination for president one has to run to the party’s extremes, and to win the general election for president one has to run to the middle. This means that Democrats need to run to the extreme left while Republicans need to run to the extreme right. Of course, this means that party activists on either side of the aisle fail to pick candidates that appeal to the majority of American voters. Does this mean th

As the Democratic party moves further to the left and the Republican party moves further to the right, not only will the polarization that we have been witness to increase, we may begin to see ruptures on policy issues that in the past were nothing more than policy disagreements. Take the issue of taxes as an example. Taxes have always been a hot button issue, with Democrats and/or liberals supporting higher taxes to finance more programs and Republicans and/or conservatives