Every City Is Either Vibrant These Days

One Of The Things I Keep Coming Back To In My Writing Is That Society Doesn't Work On This Mirror Principle - You Don't Have An Exact Replica On The Left Of What You Have On The Right. It Just Doesn't Work That Way.

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.

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.

Media Bias Has Been A Favorite Theme Of The Right For Decades, Of Course.

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.