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Corruption In The Gilded Age

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The “Gilded Age”, a term rendered by an American author, Mark Twain. Initially used to describe the corruption and greed in the United States. The Gilded Age marked a period in time in which the United States became industrialized and truly became a national economy. Today America holds the role of being the world’s economic power, living in the second Gilded Age, the country continues to confront political and government corruption, income inequality, and differences between various of groups. Today, much like in the Gilded Age, political corruption is evidently clear. As a new President was elected in 2016, the promises of “draining the swamp of corruption in Washington” and fixing “a rigged system in which political insiders can break the
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