It is unfortunate that you think income inequality is the root cause, which would be rather humorous on a forum like this where the average person is wildly representative of that very income inequality and even fuels it with manic zeal.

I keep saying it. If income inequality is the root cause, then everyone that believes that is more than free to voluntarily either give more of their money to the governments at any level, or even just simply give money to the people who they see as gaining unequal income. You and all similarly liberal minded types are all free to do essentially all of the things you support, advocate for, and believe in. No one is stopping you. But in reality the truth is that it has nothing to do with any of the things the liberal minded types say or are trained to repeat; because the common denominator is ALWAYS control, taking it from those who earned it, having it, and most importantly wielding it with impunity.

If one untangles the intentional Gordian Knott created by designing groups in most and an ever increasing number of people's minds, it becomes quite apparent that the rhetoric never matches reality, that basic if-then statements reveal that it's basically all lies.

* If it's income inequality, then why did Obama reward the housing fraud perpetrators and not even try a single one of the, then instead then shoveled trillions of dollars into the pockets of the ruling global aristocracy?

* If it's income inequality, then why do so many people support the influx of low wage and low skilled workers from Latin America to undermine the working and middle class?

* If it's income inequality, then why is it permitted that ~$120 BILLION dollars are drained out of American communities (of ALL ethnicities) every single year in remittances, which is a real loss of money and wealth that will no longer circulate in that community, which translates to several times that amount in GDP and wealth drain damage to working class people in particular?

* If it's income inequality, then why are foreign nationals imported under H1B visas to undermine middle class education and job opportunities?

* If it's income inequality, then why are skilled technical educational tracks that pay well not supported over the vast number of "liberal arts" "education" tracks that leave people unskilled, uneducated, and student loan debt slaves?

* If it's income inequality, then why are working and middle class people robbed of the product of their work and labor to ship money overseas to pay for things and make the corrupt leadership of corrupt countries richer while also forcing people to pay for immigrants that are on public assistance at the same time that they are working under the table/under-reported and not paying taxes?

No. "Income inequality" is just a feel good (mostly latched onto by guilt riddled whites) hot button slogan by the ruling aristocracy to distract from what they are really doing with the right hand.

One thing is for sure though, this all will have immense consequences for all of us, regardless of where you currently are or whether you think you are on the good and self-righteous side. The consequences of actions can only be held back so long before they overcome the resistance and come crashing in with many times more force than if they had been allowed to operate and function normally and organically like the laws of physics they are a function of. Populism is indeed here to stay, and it is and was predictable farther back than most here have been alive. It's just that no one wanted to not stick their heads up unicorn asses to gain access to the very source fo that sweet sweet unicorn poop, until we invariably snap out of the hallucinogenic delusion were were in and realize what we did to that cow that is now a rotten carcass.

We are not quite yet over the threshold of "third world country", especially considering that there is no third world when there is no more first world country once we realize in retrospect when the USA crossed the threshold, but you are quite right, we are rapidly and in an accelerating manner speeding towards that invisible crux threshold from which on out the gravitational pull will make things even more inevitable. Every con eventually comes undone unless it can be handed off to a greater fool, it's the model silicon valley has operated on for decades now, and this USA con job is clearly not only coming apart at the seams, but even being torn apart by enemies, foreign and domestic, foolishly not dealt with and even welcomed into it's midsts.

As Lincoln long ago said,: "At what point then is the approach of danger to be expected? I answer, if it ever reach us, it must spring up amongst us. It cannot come from abroad. If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. As a nation of freemen, we must live through all time, or die by suicide."

And suicide is on order.