Here’s the brutal truth about how the American Dream died and the middle class with it:

Here’s the brutal truth about how the American Dream died and the middle class with it:

It all kicked off in the 1980s with trickle-down economics — basically, tax cuts for the rich and corporations, promised to “trickle down” to everyone else. Spoiler: it didn’t. It just made the rich richer.

Then came stock buybacks. Instead of raising worker pay when productivity went up, companies bought back their own stocks to boost shareholder profits and executive bonuses.

Leverage buyouts popped up next — private equity buying everything up to squeeze more money out, with zero government oversight.

We ditched pensions for 401(k)s, dumping retirement responsibility onto workers who weren’t even taught how investing or compound interest works in school.

Jobs got shipped overseas, building middle classes in other countries while crushing ours here.

The government kept borrowing, inflating the dollar’s devaluation.

Then the 2008 financial crash hit, fueled by predatory lending. Banks got bailed out with taxpayer money while rich investors scooped up cheap houses, fueling skyrocketing rents.

Super PACs let billionaires buy elections and spread division with attack ads — divide and conquer became the playbook.

The pandemic was a disaster handled badly by both parties: small businesses shut down, trillions printed, but the money mostly flowed to the top, making the rich richer.

Low mortgage interest rates were supposed to help people refinance and get ahead. Instead, they gave the green light to rich investors to buy up housing, locking out everyday Americans from owning homes.

Fast forward to 2025 — inflation up 25% since the pandemic, no middle class left, and the American Dream? Dead.

This isn’t just history. It’s a blueprint of how power and wealth got sucked to the top while everyone else got left behind.