Reply #123: That's why I used the word "illusion" -- It was E,mperor's New Clothes [View All]

[Armstead]

In the 80's and 90's the media kept telling people either ghow great they were doing or how great they COULD be doing in the wonderful economy if they just worked a little harder and invested a little more.

That created the self-identification many people had with the rich, and why they were convinced to overlook te real interests of the class they were actually in.

meanwhile in the real world, factories were shutting down, people saw their wages go down while the cost of things like housing were going up. But in a wonderful economy, the message from the media and the corporate politicians was that if you weren;ty doing well it was all yourn fault. You just weren't picking up the gold nuggets that lay in the streets.