1 percent gets richer, and American politics move to the right

"Studies support that, showing that since a bipartisan era — from the end of World War II to 1980 — moderate and conservative Republicans have swung far to the right. At the same time, the income of the top 1 percent follows the same trajectory. “It doesn’t have anything to do with Democrats,” Cenk says. “It has to do with the wholesale purchase of the Republican party by the top 1 percent.”