because the very fact of inequality has a corrosive harmful effect ackerson. you open by talking about the american dream or the american dream as clear as mean delivered it will in poor you were card. ridge it was possible for a worker to get a decent job. in a corps of children to school. to a collapse. imagine yourself in an outside position looking for mars. what do you see. in the united states where there are professed to like democracy. in a democracy public opinion is going to have some influence on policy. and then the government carries out actions determined by the population and that's what democracy means. it's important to understand that privileged and powerful sectors have never liked democracy and for very good reasons. democracy puts power into the hands of the general population and takes it away from them. as kind of the principle of concentration of wealth and power. concentration of wealth yields concentration of power particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the political parties into the pockets of major