5 Signs America’s Super-Rich Are Going Off the Deep End

[elzenmahn]

65. The difference between then an now, however...

...is that in the 30s, the Left had a political backstop and support structure: labor unions, academia, and the like.

Those are gone now. Look at the failed attempt to unionize the Chattanooga VW plant, and politicians openly attempting to influence the union election with scare tactics. Labor union participation is at an all-time low, and if the Scott Walkers of the US have their way, they will destroy the last bastion of labor union strength - the public sector. Academia has been infiltrated by the Ayn Randies and the Friedman Freaks, as attested by the closing of arts departments, and in their place, are being erected big, gleaming business schools.

Chris Hedges lays it all out in Death of the Liberal Class. Read it, if you haven't already.