A shout out to "social issues"

[guillaumeb]

196. Amen to that.

When you wrote:

"What people who go on about corporatism are lamenting is not the structural inequality that has characterized this country from its inception but the decline of their own class. For some that also includes a lament about the decline of their race and gender privilege."

Many US citizens, here and elsewhere, cannot admit that the US empire was founded on structural inequality and division of the working class. They are believers in the myth of US exceptionalism and believe that every person has an equal chance to succeed even when all the evidence disproves that this has ever been true.

Your phrase "the decline of their own class" zeroes in on the narrowness of the focus that is the primary reason that many people miss the point of the post. Union workers have also been guilty of this narrow focus. Some business unionists have focused exclusively on wages and benefits for their own members without realizing that, in the long term, for ANY workers in any industry to really succeed, ALL workers must succeed.

Social and economic equality are inseparable. True equality means equality in every aspect of life, it cannot be limited to wages.