"I feel the need to explain something to the generation that does not remember, or never saw, a world where one person with a high school education could support a family of 5 comfortably.
"This was real. For millions of US families. It was *normal.*
It was stolen from you."
@IAmDannyBoling The "it was stolen from you." part feels particularly dangerous.
It was "normal" for many Christian white families. Also, one member of the family was a full-time, highly skilled, unpaid domestic laborer.
The rhetoric of the far right is that this lifestyle was stolen by people of color (especially black and immigrant) and women who gained footholds in the workplace since that time. Further, they allege that it was the coastal liberal elites who conspired to enable this theft.
