30 years ago today, I warned that America was becoming a two-tiered society composed of a few winners and a larger group left behind, whose anger and disillusionment could be easily manipulated. I took a lot of heat for this speech at the time. Watch and tell me if I was wrong.

A Warning from 1994 of a Two-Tiered Society | Robert Reich

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