The Ruling Class Has Stolen The American Dream

America's middle class and poor class are now less well off than their counterparts in other countries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/23/upshot/the-american-middle-class-is-no-longer-the-worlds-richest.html

We fell from our lofty perch because the 1% of the 1% of the 1% engineered our fall for their benefit. They have turned us into worthless objects in our own country, and so far we have done little or nothing to resist their theft of the American dream.

Why is that?