Every City Is Either Vibrant These Days

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.

Promises To Get Beyond Partisanship Are The Most Perfunctory Sort Of Campaign Rhetoric, Almost As Empty As The Partisanship Itself.

Just As The Financial Crisis Has Created Toxic Assets And 'zombie' Financial Institutions, So Has It Transformed Conservatism Into A Movement Of The Living Dead.

Apparently, There Is No Bad Economic Turn A Conservative Cannot Do Unto His Buddy In The Working Class, As Long As Cultural Solidarity Has Been Cemented Over A Beer.