It has become the economy.  I have waited for this moment.  Here lies the chance for the truth to be told about poverty and wealth in the United States. The chance is here and the silence is deafening.
    The haves and have-not aren't the story of America.  The movement from the have-nots to the haves is the story.
    The untold story of social movements is that the predominant movement is up the socioeconomic ladder.  The shrinking middle class is a function of people moving to the upper class, not retreating to poverty.  This is a reality that is ignored politically for obvious reasons.  Wealth creators have little to gain from government and much to loose from it's interference.
    How does this reality go unacknowledged you may ask?  I suggest one consider their local government school.  Local polls suggest good feelings of families toward their child's school, while maintaining a poor image of the quality of public schools nationally.  This dissonance is applied economically as well.  " I am doing well, but I hear terrible things about others."  One needs to put down the remote and not let assumptions drive important decisions.  Check the data and see for oneself.  We all can be armed with the knowledge so that when a class warfare politician spouts this rhetoric we can comfortably say "they are ignorant, or they are lying".