A term-by-term examination of thirteen presidential administrations, their policies, and the documented effect on economic inequality — scored against six core metrics and grounded in cited sources throughout.
I am a retired IT person, 70 in age, one who has spent 25 unhappy years fixated on following the politics of my country, the United States. I am an unabashed liberal who makes no apologies for the same.
In Dec 2025 I decided at long last to make myself familiar with AI. Shortly thereafter the idea of using AI to do this treatise occurred to me. It rather seemed at the time, to my uninitiated naïvete, a perfect use case for this new technology — one that would make use of the non jaundiced eye of the unbiased AI Agent, to produce what ought to be an unimpeachable report.
So I began the painful excursion into the endeavor. Twice, with two different AI agents (ChatGPT, then CoPilot) I spent the better part of 2 days in the effort. Both times, for about 6 hours, things seemed to go very well, only to somewhat rapidly deteriorate into near gibberish. I learned the meaning and pain of “AI Drift” the hard way.
I waited about 6 months before making a third attempt, another day and half and the third time proved to be a success
This is the Result!
The three main entry points into the treatise itself.
Cross-cutting materials that sit alongside the term-by-term documents.
The underlying data and a single-file version of the whole treatise.
How this treatise was actually built, in the interest of full transparency.