The Useful Fiction
The Useful Fiction Act IV: The Political Fiction
Closing out, the accident that created what we call the middle class is about over. Sure, politicians will pontificate, but neither party is willing to do the work to keep it going.
The Useful Fiction
The American middle class wasn't destiny. It was a historical accident, born of war, organized labor, and an unusual distribution of economic power. Then the people who owned the economy spent decades dismantling it, while both political parties kept selling the dream. A four-part examination of how America's greatest economic achievement became its most useful political fiction.
The Useful Fiction
The Useful Fiction - Act III: Et tu donkey?
If you think that the Democrats are the party of the middle class, you're fooling yourself. But since the 1980's they've gotten on the gravy train, feeding at the trough with the Republicans
Political Musing
The Useful Fiction Act II: The Long Game
At the start, it wasn't a Republican or a Democrat issue, it was a plutocrat capitalist issue, and they think in multi-decade time spans. It pays to have patience
Political Musing
The Useful Fiction Act I: The Accident
The Middle Class. It resonates, and it is almost a God given American right, but what is it really? Act I of 4 on the Middle Class.