Media Bias Has Been A Favorite Theme

Acknowledging Class Was Always Difficult For 'new Democrats' - It Was Second-wave, It Was Divisive - But 2008 Made Retro Politics Cool Again.

Markets Are Interested In Profits And Profits Only; Service, Quality, And General Affluence Are Different Functions Altogether. The Universal, Democratic Prosperity That Americans Now Look Back To With Such Nostalgia Was Achieved Only By A Colossal Reigning In Of Markets, By The Gargantuan Effort Of Mass, Popular Organizations Like Labor Unions And Of The People Themselves, Working Through A Series Of Democratically Elected Governments Not Daunted By The Myths Of The Market.

Corruption Is Uniquely Reprehensible In A Democracy Because It Violates The System's First Principle, Which We All Learned Back In The Sunshiny Days Of Elementary School: That The Government Exist To Serve The Public, Not Particular Companies Or Individuals Or Even Elected Officials.

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.

People Are Born In A Certain Place, And In A Certain Society. I Don't Mean To Sound Like A Determinist, But To Think We're Entirely Free To Do Whatever We Want Betrays A Certain Class Perspective. For Most People Who Have To Work For A Living, And Work At Jobs Under Conditions They May Not Like, It's Just Not Simple When It Comes To Freedom.