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LOL, Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford were Democrats, only in your duck world.
I did not change the subject. You were the one who brought the list of superwealthy.
Of course the superwealthy gave plenty. Yet there were plenty left over to the offsprings. However, the free market ensured that competition would whittle away at the inheritance . . . Which also contributed to the patriarchs understanding how pointless it would be to pass the entire fortune to offsprings.
Contrast that with the 20th century and now: seems the post-FDR era has given people a sense that it is the government's responsibility to take care of the poor, while it is the parents' responsibility to leave as much as possible to the dynastic wealthy offsprings.
Just like the Republicans controlled the Congress while Truman was president and Carter was president. That's just the American voters' wisdom to keep them in check and balance, unlike your partisan silliness.
Here is a common saying:
If your vote is in someone's back pocket, you will be sat on :-)
1. Despite the much greater (relatively speaking) fortunes made in the 19th centuey, those big fortunes typically went away after the death of the founders in the absence of government institutions entrenching dynastic wealth, unlike in the 20th century. Whether the eventual dispersion was due to the patriarchs giving away, lost it to competition or offsprings whittle away is irrelevant: all three led to social mobility. The patriarchs giving away could easily be motivated by social mobility making dynastic wealth impractical to maintain, unlike the 20th century after the FED founding. If you insist on an example of a great banking fortune lost to competition in the pre - FED era, one easily coming to mind was the Knickerbocker Trust. Of course you are probably too ignorant to know what it is without googling.
2. You are putting your ignorance on display when claiming the Democrats controlled the US Government from 1946 to 1980. In case you did not notice, Democrats were so hopeless in 1952 that Truman refused to seek re-election; same thing happened to LBJ in 1968. Even the 1960 election can be argued that JFK' s father bought the election by having Chicago mobsters vote on behalf of many dead people to capture Illinois and steal the election. Nixon was too afraid of Kennedy's dynastic wealth to seek recount. The Democratic Party was in existential crisis after the 1972 election as Nixon won by landslide. Only the Watergate scandal brought Democrats back to life, even then only a one termer before Reagan again won by landslide!
3. You ar once again putting your ignorance on display by claiming the late 1970 ' s as some kind of happy time. The "Misery Index" was a term invented during the Carter years! Runaway inflation in the mid-teens plus double-digit unemployment. The Keynesianism and Phillips Curve nonsense were abandoned only because they were shown to be thoroughly mistaken in real life! You sound like a 20 or 30-something year old too young to remember what happened back then; possibly a paid shill.
4. Your content-free personal attacks only show your desperation.
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