Jello wrote:
And unless you run a TV network or live in Washington, you probably already know what that emergency is.

Is it just me, or is the fact that the presidential race this year is between McCain and a black man the height of irony? If back in 1991 you told me this was going to be the case, I would've laughed and thought you were doing a piece for Adbusters. Class war indeed.

This is the most telling, and in my mind, accurate quote:

This development has cut the balls out of American civil society by forcing the export abroad of our manufacturing economy, leaving us with a service/managerial economy that simply cannot support the vast, healthy middle class our government used to work very hard to both foster and protect. The Democratic party that was once the impetus behind much of these changes, that argued so eloquently in the New Deal era that our society would be richer and more powerful overall if the spoils were split up enough to create a strong base of middle class consumers — that party panicked in the years since Nixon and elected to pay for its continued relevance with corporate money. As a result the entire debate between the two major political parties in our country has devolved into an argument over just how quickly to dismantle the few remaining benefits of American middle-class existence — immediately, if you ask the Republicans, and only slightly less than immediately, if you ask the Democrats.

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