Parallels between the Gilded Age and the present?

[darklordoftech]

Gilded Age: High GDP
Present: High GDP

Gilded Age: High income inequality
Today: High income inequality

Gilded Age: "Yellow journalism"
Today: "Fake news"

Gilded Age: Mass immigration from Ireland and Italy
Today: Mass immigration from Mexico and the Middle East

Gilded Age: Anxiety about "Romanism"
Today: Anxiety about "Sharia Law"

Gilded Age: Politics polarized over alcohol prohibition
Today: Politics polarized over abortion and guns

Gilded Age: Partisan newspapers
Today: Partisan TV and internet

Gilded Age: William Jennings Bryan promising relief to in-debt farmers.
Today: Bernie Sanders promising relief to in-debt college students.

Gilded Age: Industrial factories changing society
Today: Silicon Valley, computer tech, cell phones, smart phones, and automated factories revolutionizing society

Gilded Age: Anger towards banks and politicians perceived as having sold out to them ("Bourbon Democrats")
Today: Anger towards banks and politicians perceived as having sold out to them ("neoliberals")

[King Lear]

It's nice people are finally noticing the similarities I started a whole thread on how the current political era (1980-today) resembles the gilded age (1860-1932) instead of the new deal coalition era (1932-1980).

[darklordoftech]

It's nice people are finally noticing the similarities I started a whole thread on how the current political era (1980-today) resembles the gilded age (1860-1932) instead of the new deal coalition era (1932-1980).

1860-1876 was the Civil War era, 1876-1901 was the Gilded Age, 1901-1917 was the Progressive era, 1917-1921 was the WWI era, 1921-1929 was the Roaring 20s, etc.