> They need to be reminded that all their “hard won success” was supported by an infrastructure that no longer exists for the vast majority of Americans.

With respect, when did this infrastructure ever exist for most Americans? I didn't work during the 1950s and 1960s, but my grandparents did. It was VERY difficult for working-class people to find any opportunity at all. My grandfather was an undereducated factory worker, grandmother a stay at home mom. There was NO chance they could have turned into a Mad Men success story.

I'm just not so sure the good old days were really that good.