A recent headline from the mainstream media blared the news (stated the obvious): more than 60% of Americans don't believe that either half of the U.S.'s two-party political system cares about the endangered species known as “the Middle Class.”
How endangered is the Middle Class, in the United States and across North America, as a whole? The chart below reveals the horrifying truth.
We see that in China the Middle Class (wealth deciles 4 – 7) is a broad swath of the population, and the Middle Class and upper Middle Class, combined are a clear majority, in the world's largest population. Even in India, the Middle Class represents a growing bulge of the population. Then we have the West.
In Europe, the Middle Class has been reduced to a narrow band. In North America; the endangered Middle Class is now literally nothing but a sliver of the population, with bulges for only the very wealthy and very poor (our growing population of Homeless people). Note how the mainstream media hides the death of the Middle Class with its slippery propaganda.
…about 120.8 million American adults, or about 50%, live in middle-income households as of early 2015. Meanwhile, 29% and 21% live in lower- and upper-income households, respectively.
We can see the bulges of very poor, and very rich Americans in the chart above. But where is the 50% which supposedly lives in the middle? It (mostly) doesn't exist. Instead, most of the 50% who are supposedly “middle income” are either rich or poor. The mainstream media pretends the Great Divide does not exist, but the picture above is unequivocal.
However, beyond this original fiction and deception, we see an even more peculiar omission by the mainstream media propaganda machine: the Missing Minority. A small chart (attached to the original headline) hides a large and ugly truth.
Add up the numbers above, and we see this Missing Minority, whose existence the mainstream media refuses to even acknowledge. On the Republican side; we see numbers showing that 90% of Republican supporters believes the party supports either the poor, Middle Class, or rich. What about the other 10%?
