The staggering loss of American paychecks to globalization and robotics has yet to be acknowledged, let alone addressed, by Washington, and a fawning media continues to ignore the resulting cost, the inability of the demand side of our economy to add healthy legs to an anemic cyclical upturn, especially a rather obvious root cause, the devastating, politically-driven destruction wreaked on the cornerstone of any economic bounty that had come our way before, a formerly almighty American middle class.
It's left to unknown authors in obscure online publications to even bring such matters up:
