This is simply false. There are no "classes" per se in America, in the sense they had existed in the early decades of the 20th century and as had existed in the centuries before. Americans generally move in and out of various socioeconomic strata throughout their working lifetimes, and this has been, progressively, the norm since the end of WWII and the explosive economic growth of the American economy since that time.
Class mobility is has been in sharp decline since the late 70's / early 80's. And the 50's-70's period of stability it declined from represented a decline from its predecessor. It actually peaked in the late FDR era you are describing as the bad old days of class. Basically, you're just flat bsing and hoping no one is aware enough to call you on it. But as awful as this posting is, it's even worse because it misses the point. The existence of class mobility doesn't refute the notion of the existence of socioeconomic classes. Indeed, it presupposes them.
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Neither of those links establish trend lines to refute what I wrote or establish what you claimed. The pattern looks something like this graph:
The two links, and the article itself, point to a substantial body of empirical evidence that refute directly and conclusively what you have claimed.
Would you like more links?
Could you also provide the source of your graph, please, including what its actually measuring, against what relative baseline, and based upon what data included and excluded in the study from which the graph was constructed, and how interpreted (I do not trust charts and graphs - statistical representations - unless I know every jot and tittle of how the chart or graph was constructed and upon what criteria).
Nothing is going to startle us more when we pass through the veil to the other side than to realize how well we know our Father [in Heaven] and how familiar his face is to us
- President Ezra Taft Benson
I am so old that I can remember when most of the people promoting race hate were white.
Droopy wrote: The two links, and the article itself, point to a substantial body of empirical evidence that refute directly and conclusively what you have claimed.
I'm sorry about your inability to read. Alcohol is a hell of a drug. Feel free to quote the sections that show a progressive increase in class mobility occurring over recent decades coupled with class rigidity prior to WW II. Because from where I'm standing, you linked two sources that claimed class mobility exists - it does - but did not attempt to argue for a recent increasing trend in that regard or a pre WW II caste system. Not that you can do that, but pretending that you've done that, go ahead and try to link that up with the assertion that class does not exist in America.
