Americans Have Known About Mounting Inequality And

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.

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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.

Vote To Stand Tall Against Terrorists ; Receive Social Security Privatization . Vote To Strike A Blow Against Elitism; Receive A Social Order In Which Wealth Is More Concentrated Than Ever Before In Our Lifetimes , In Which Workers Have Been Stripped Of Power And Ceos Are Rewarded In A Manner Beyond Imagining.

The Revival Of The Right Is As Extraordinary As It Would Be If The Public Had Demanded Dozens Of New Nuclear Plants In The Days After The Three Mile Island Disaster; If We Had Reacted To Watergate By Making Richard Nixon A National Hero.