And the road to becoming an emerging market pluton omist. if piketty is right expect more political polarization inport of the idea the authors point to rise of extreme parties in europe and to this chart showing the tight link between the rise of the top one percent in america and the rise to pol polarizati polarization. the inequality we created so-called free trade deals and tax cuts for the rich is not only screwing over working and middle class people, it is screwing over our political system. as our political system cracks and breaks it becomes near impossible to turn back tides of inequ...