Here, in one graph, Mother Jones illustrates perfectly how grotesquely distorted the American economy has become. On the left, the total of bonuses Wall Street handed-out to itself in 2014; on the right, the gross income (before taxes) of Americans working full-time for minimum wage.
Seriously: When the bonus money distributed inside a relatively small club is more than twice what America’s working poor earn, any nitwit should be able to see how far down the road we have gone toward an oligarchy.
What shocks is that the middle-class evangelical right, encouraged by their clergy, have become the political shock troops for the very people who are screwing the country into the ground, cheering-on an insane, nihilistic Republican Party that has no policy but to frustrate the operation of the government.