The Future Of The American Left: Wealth Inequality

Name Instructor Course Date The American Left The future of the American Left On the economic front, the Left has mainly rallied against low wages, wealth inequality and even argued that there is exploitation of workers. On social issues, leftists have mostly supported secularism and are more likely to call for the recognition of nontraditional marriages including addressing issues affecting the LGBT. Pike (1) argued that would be social turmoil since many companies paid their managers huge salaries for making organizations profitable regardless of whether they fired a lot of workers. While this has not come to pass, the Occupy Wall Street, which were organized mostly in 2011 became a rallying call for the fight against inequality in the U.S. and at the global stage. The ‘99%’ was depicted to having suffered because of the actions of the richest ‘1%’. According to Krugman (2) education does not pay where the biggest gains are among the wealthy, and this is not necessarily an issue of demand and supply since power relations influence wealth inequality in the U.S. but this is hardly mentioned. Dowd mentioned her conversations with an idealistic friend who thought that it was possible to change the corporate-military industrial complex in the 60’s and thereafter. At a time when there were radical changes in the U.S. while this did not come to pass, the corporate giants have become more powerful than ever before and even reactions to corporate crime is more muted unlike the past (Wysham and NPR1). The rise in economic inequality in the US in the last generation and when America was created the country was contrasted with Britain, which still has monarchy and there were clear class distinctions (Sitaraman 2). Wealth and power are closely intertwined, and the rich have more influence that the poor through lobbying, campaign contributions, think tanks and interest group influence (Sitaraman 2). Significant idea or action taken by the American Le...