Yes, thanks, I forgot wealth inequality, can't be overstated. Galbreath wrote that it's his #1 reason for what caused the Great Depression.
It's not so much (at all) the spirit of what America was founded on as the myth of the founding.
Take the original tea party. Ironically, colonists dressed like Indians protesting a tea tax while displacing those same Indians and embracing slavery (the ultimate taxation without representation).