Born on Third Base: What the Forbes 400 Really Says About Economic Equality & Opportunity in America

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4. We have a window to change that, and it is just now starting to open.

Demographic shift will partly solve the problem, as those that put the Republicans and their agenda of theft in power are shuffling off this mortal coil.

The other part is that people who weren't paying attention before because things were all good in their little part of the world are starting to wake up, as things are no longer quite so good for them anymore.

They are starting to realize just who has been sticking it to them for the last thirty years, and want to know how that was allowed to happen to them, too, as they were loyal foot soldiers who threw in with the oligarchs and thought that they would share in the spoils.

Instead they are finding themselves thrown on the disposal heap after being used by the Right along with the rest of us who have been there all along, and aren't too happy about it.


I see the current political state of affairs as the apogee of the Right.

I actually saw the rise of the Tea Party as a symptom of that decline in a desperate effort to 'purify' their party; which usually is a huge flag denoting a political party in disarray.

Party purges, calling out the idealogical traitors in one's midst, adherence to increasingly dogmatic positions, loyalty oaths...then fracturing, party civil war, and a long visit to the wilderness of political relevancy.

Where have we seen that before, I wonder?