The Great Undoing: How America’s Middle Class Is Engineered to Fracture—And How We Fight Back

Part 1 of 4 — The Rise, the Betrayal, and Who Got Left Behind

Nov 19, 2025

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The middle class was murdered in broad daylight.
The weapon? AI.
The killers? The same elites who told you to “learn to code.”

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