Americans Lose Faith That Hard Work Leads to Economic Gains, WSJ-NORC Poll Finds

The real problem with this is ... who cares?

Prior experience teachers that those losing faith in this way or are impacted by inequality won't, on the whole, come for the those who put them in that situation.

They'll come for the brown people next door. Because obviously it's their fault.

And whether it comes from their own, internal, faulty logic. Or through the whisperings of Fox News. It won't matter.

Rinse. Repeat.

Because that faith is what got people to accept "the brown people living next door." The idea that we could get along and just work harder is what let people give up tribalism. If that no longer works tribalism must come back.

Sorry. The logic doesn't follow at each stage of your suggestion.