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"...A change is coming in 2020. Gerrymandered maps are being struck down by courts across the country, and the 2018 midterm elections point to massive turnout in the next election. Republicans, clearly running scared, are preparing for the course correction by breaking, bending and reshaping the rules in an obvious attempt to make a mockery of the democratic process.

From Oregon to North Carolina, GOP lawmakers have used every dirty trick they can to seize power and undermine the power Democrats even after they win elections. They have taken Grover Norquist’s goal — to turn the tone in state capitals toward bitterness and partisanship — to heart in a major way.

“Our goal is to inflict pain. It is not enough to win. It has to be a painful, devastating defeat. Like when the king would take his opponent's head and spike it on a pole for everyone to see,” Norquist infamously said in the National Review. Except for the shock election of Donald Trump to the presidency, however, Republicans haven’t had the best record of winning of late. Based on their behavior while losing, it seems that the revised Republican goal goes beyond pain to utter destruction.

Take for instance the extreme and ridiculous proposal by a Texas Republican state lawmaker to abolish the state capital of Austin. Apparently upset that the progressive city approved $150,000 in grants to organizations like Planned Parenthood, GOP state Rep. Briscoe Cain called for direct retaliation against the city of more than 950,000 people, saying the Republican-controlled state legislature should get “supreme authority over mayor and council.” ..."

This guy actually agrees with you on a number of fronts.

He's partially right, but he over looks the fact that a lot of the inequality is due to immigration policy and demographic changes, as this article discusses.

https://www.heritage.org/immigration/report/importing-poverty-immigration-and-poverty-the-united-states-book-charts

"Prior to 1960, immigrants to the U.S. had education levels that were similar to those of the non-immigrant workforce and earned wages that were, on average, higher than those of non-immigrant workers. Since the mid-1960s, however, the education levels of new immigrants have plunged relative to non-immigrants; consequently, the average wages of immigrants are now well below those of the non-immigrant population. Recent immigrants increasingly occupy the low end of the U.S. socio-economic spectrum."

The mass import poverty to this country pretty has pretty much erased any progress welfare programs would provide at decreasing poverty.  Democrats say we need to do more to combat poverty, while they intentionally increase it at the same time.  In doing so they shift demographics to favor people who will be more likely to vote for more programs to help impoverished people. 

You expect conservatives just to sit idly by and let it happen?  Eventually more us are gonna realize the rules of the game democrats play are stacked against and we will seek out alternative means, even if it means scraping the current system.  Democrats can't win on ideas.  They can only win by importing more and more poverty and promising them more free stuff in exchange for votes.