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I agree that most will forget their worry about the poor once they feel that their own situation is stable. However, what MAGA wants is what has happened to countless corrupt countries throughout history - a population that is 5% unbelievably wealthy, and the other 95% is dirt poor. Most Americans grew up middle class, and can't imagine that their government would ever deliberately take it away, but that's exactly what they are doing.
The middle class that boomers grew up with is already gone. Young people today don't know of a time when Dad worked a single job, mom stayed home with the kids, and they bought a house, a new car every 2 or 3 years, went on vacation, put kids through college, paid for weddings, etc., and still retired with a "3-legged stool:" SS, pension, and savings.
Today, it takes multiple incomes just to hang on to an apartment. People die still owing student loans. Medical bills bankrupt millions of people every year. Living in a car has now been so normalized by young people that I just read about a college who is building a dedicated multilevel parking structure for students who live in their cars. They could build a residence for them to have an actual roof over their heads, but they chose to reinforce the concept of living in a car as a valid future housing option for young people. I can't wait for some bright happy student taking families around on their campus tour, and pointing out their new innovative living facility.
Bottom line: the Sociopathic Oligarchs are configuring society so that everybody will die either super-wealthy, or much more likely, penniless. They don't want people inheriting some tiny fortune that might allow them to pay off their student loans, or their other bills, or pay off a mortgage, or buy a house, or start a business, or even just retire early. All of those things combine to enslave us, and they want much more of that, not less.
Ownership class is more accurate, I think.