For about 47 minutes the president successfully moved the conversation to income inequality, the very existence of which proves that the fundamental transformation of America into a grey smear of equally compensated workers has a long way to go. The news cycle, whose attention span makes a housefly look like a Galapagos turtle, was Very Concerned for a while, but then a sign-language guy at Mandela’s funeral was revealed to have been miming the instructions for complex nautical knots, and that was that.
In a few months the president may indeed be informed that incomes are still unequal, and make no mistake — and for the love of all that is good and decent, let him be clear — no one will be angrier than he is. He made a speech, for heaven’s sake.
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