People Getting Their Fundamental Interests

The Great Goal Of The Backlash Is To Nurture A Cultural Class War, And The First Step In Doing So, As We Have Seen, Is To Deny The Economic Basis Of Social Class. After All, You Can Hardly Deride Liberals As Society's "elite" Or Present The Gop As The Party Of The Common Man If You Acknowledge The Existence Of The Corporate World - The Power That Creates The Nation's Real Elite, That Dominates Its Real Class System, And That Wields The Republican Party As Its Personal Political Sidearm.

When Done Right - Or Wrong, Depending On How You Look At It - Deficits Remove Liberal Options From The Table. Suddenly There's No Money For Building Bridges Or Inspecting Meat. Not Surprisingly, Running Up A Deficit Is A Strategy Favored By The Wrecking Crew For Its Liberal-killing Properties.

They, The Conservatives, Are The Real Outsides, They Tell Us, Gazing With Disgust Upon The Ludicrous Manners Of The High And Mighty. Or, They Tell Us, They Are Rough-and-ready Proles, Laughing Along With Us At The Efforts Of Our Social "betters" To Reform And Improve Us. That They Are Often, In Fact, People Of Privilege Doing Their Utmost To Boost The Fortunes Of A Political Party That Is The Traditional Tool Of The Privileged Is A Contradiction That Does Not Trouble Them.

Promises To Get Beyond Partisanship Are The Most Perfunctory Sort Of Campaign Rhetoric, Almost As Empty As The Partisanship Itself.

Massive Inequality, We Have Learned, Isn't The Best Way To Run An Economy After All. And When You Think About It, It's Also Profoundly Ugly.