In describing the causes of the loss of democratic power in republics in the past, Roosevelt described our current predicament precisely when he said "in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of the govern…
In describing the causes of the loss of democratic power in republics in the past, Roosevelt described our current predicament precisely when he said "in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of the government for the benefit of the people as a whole." Today's GOP clearly intends to form a government that benefits the 1% class, leaving the rest of the people in a state of precarious economic limbo, forced to serve the interests of a global economy driven by greed and exploitation. We have coined a name for this class of slaves to corporate power--the Precariat, the insecure mass of workers consigned to make precarious livings in the gig economy. Biden has taken initiatives to alter that arrangement, but nothing has fundamentally changed. The U.S. has the greatest economic inequality in the world right now and if it continues, as Roosevelt noted in his reference to failed republics throughout history, the American experiment in democracy is toast. Justice Loud D. Brandeis said it best: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
In describing the causes of the loss of democratic power in republics in the past, Roosevelt described our current predicament precisely when he said "in no way has this loss of power been so often and so clearly shown as in the tendency to turn the government into a government primarily for the benefit of one class instead of the government for the benefit of the people as a whole." Today's GOP clearly intends to form a government that benefits the 1% class, leaving the rest of the people in a state of precarious economic limbo, forced to serve the interests of a global economy driven by greed and exploitation. We have coined a name for this class of slaves to corporate power--the Precariat, the insecure mass of workers consigned to make precarious livings in the gig economy. Biden has taken initiatives to alter that arrangement, but nothing has fundamentally changed. The U.S. has the greatest economic inequality in the world right now and if it continues, as Roosevelt noted in his reference to failed republics throughout history, the American experiment in democracy is toast. Justice Loud D. Brandeis said it best: "We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
Louis was not "Loud" by all accounts. Sorry for that typo.