What Is At Stake In The Debate

As You Watch The World Crumble, Try Taking Your Armageddon With This Sprinkling Of Irony: Over The Last Three Decades, Business Has Got Virtually Everything It Wanted, And Its Doomsday Scenario From The 1970s Has Come True Because Of It.

Mounting A Campaign Against Plutocracy Makes As Much Sense To The Typical Washington Liberal As Would Circulating A Petition Against Gravity. What Our Modernized Liberal Leaders Offer Is Not Confrontation But A Kind Of Therapy For Those Flattened By The Free-market Hurricane: They Counsel Us To Accept The Inevitability Of The Situation.

Most Of Roosevelt's Innovations Have Been The Law Of The Land For 70 Years Now, And Yet We Are Still A Free Society Free Enough, That Is, To Allow Tens Of Thousands Of Protesters To Gather On The National Mall And To Broadcast Their Slogans And Speeches To The World Via C-span.

I Think The Wikileaks Releases Furnish Us With An Opportunity To Observe The Upper Reaches Of The American Status Hierarchy In All Its Righteousness And Majesty. High-achieving Colleagues Attempting To Get Jobs For Their High-achieving Children. Foundation Executives Doing Fine And Noble Things. Prizes, Of Course, And High Academic Achievement.

During The Financial Crisis And Bailouts Of 2008, It Probably Occurred To Very Few Average People That We Were Entering A Period Of Hardship For Billionaires.