A chart showing the distribution of family wealth in 2022. Taken from https://apps.urban.org/features/wealth-inequality-charts/

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   CrimethInc. Ex-Workers (crimethinc@todon.eu)'s status on Thursday, 18-Jul-2024 03:24:14 JST CrimethInc. Ex-Workers

   In the 2024 Republican platform, they explicitly promise to "CARRY OUT THE LARGEST DEPORTATION OPERATION IN AMERICAN HISTORY."

   Why this obsession with attacking immigrants and refugees?

   Over the past sixty years, wealth inequality in the United States has doubled. In 1963, the wealthiest families had 36 times the wealth of families in the middle of the wealth distribution; by 2022, they had 71 times the wealth of families in the middle.

   In 1963, the wealthiest billionaire owned $1.2 billion. In 2022, Elon Musk owned $219 billion.

   So it's not surprising that people are angry.

   Yet using their vast resources to control the media, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and other elements of the ruling class have managed to direct popular resentment at those who suffer most under capitalism—the undocumented, the poor, those whose families have been exploited for generations. This strategy is calculated to enable the rich to continue fleecing the middle class while avoiding consequences for it.

   Gullible bigots blame the penniless for their own problems, rather than holding the powerful to account.

   This is the recipe for fascism.

   More on capitalism:

   https://crimethinc.com/work

   More on the scapegoating of immigrants:

   https://crimethinc.com/borders