The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 marked a turning point in US economic policy and the implementation of a series of tax cuts for high-income earners, as part of a supply-oriented economic program known as "Reaganomics", fooling people into thinking the wealthy would invest more and create more job for them. In other words, money would “trickle down”. Instead, salaries have stagnated, one percent of the USA owns 40 percent of its wealth, and the middle class has become the working poor. Where once one money-maker was able to support a family, now it is very difficult for two money-makers to support a family. Income and wealth equality became a silent problem which quietly caused the men to feel ashamed that they were not big and successful the way they were they supposed to be in "the land of opportunity" where the streets are made of gold!
The Reaganomics people, not wanting to be blamed for this stagnation of wages, started telling the struggling breadwinners that it was women, homosexuals, foreigners, heathens, and morals for “destroying the American way of life”, creating ”culture wars. You see flames of hate towards these groups being fanned every day on Fox News and Newsmax and social media influencers. This creates good drama on the political stage and a good distraction from the unfairness and deception of Reaganomics. This not only worsens the economic disparities, but it also lowers the self-esteem of traditional breadwinners, stirs up unnecessary hate, and intolerance towards civil rights activists, feminist movements, gender and LGBTQIA+ rights, and migrants rights. After all, the young white straight men, not knowing the real cause of their frustrations, were given new targets to blame. The democratic socialists, the democrats, the black rights protesters, gender and LGBT equality, and the feminists are all reacting to the misguided blame thrown their way by frustrated men robbed of their dignity by the ruling economic class with the help of patriarchial religions. Instead of fighting each other, these groups need to fight the real war--the economic class war.
