Take a look at this diagram of musical chairs and see for yourself. Temporary contract jobs with little or no job security. Increasing numbers of people in the lower income bracket sliding into debt and poverty. Political disenfranchisement of the major part of the populous. The erosion of unions.
Racial intolerance motivated by financial insecurity is on the increase.
In a nation where the stock market is going bonkers the government is talking about pushing back the national debt, during a time when there should be plenty for everybody, we find that this is not the case at all. Something is wrong and we sure can't expect the people with the money to come to our aid. The corporations are king. It seems to me that the only reasonable explanation for this is that the wealthy have essentially become the government.