The establishment doesn’t wish to understand, because that would mean acknowledging its role in bringing all this on.
The End of the Establishment?

ROBERT B. REICH, Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and Senior Fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies, was Secretary of Labor in the Clinton administration. Time magazine named him one of the ten most effective cabinet secretaries of the twentieth century. He has written fourteen books, including the best sellers Aftershock, The Work of Nations and Beyond Outrage and, his most recent, Saving Capitalism. He is also a founding editor of The American Prospect magazine, chairman of Common Cause, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and co-creator of the award-winning documentary, Inequality for All.
The establishment doesn’t wish to understand, because that would mean acknowledging its role in bringing all this on.
What’s left is a lifeless shell.
We must get big money out of our democracy, end crony capitalism, and make our economy and democracy work for the many.
“The real world we’re living in” right now won’t allow fundamental change of the sort we need.
The real choice isn’t “pragmatism” or “idealism.”
The upcoming election isn’t about detailed policy proposals.
Why did the white working class abandon the Democrats?
To paraphrase philosopher George Santayana, those who cannot remember they were screwed by Wall Street are condemned to be screwed again.
As reformers of the Progressive Era understood more than a century ago, no single president or any other politician can accomplish what’s needed.
Shkreli may be a rotten apple. But hedge funds and the pharmaceutical industry are two rotten systems that are costing Americans a bundle.