OK, I'll Say It. Yes, Big Wall Street Donations Compromise President Obama

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15. It is very good and a quick read. I am about 85 pages in.

His thesis is that the Democratic Party really stopped being the party of the poor and the working and middle class a long time ago. He says if the Republican Party can be described as the party of the upper 1%, the Democrat are the party of the upper 10%, what Frank calls the professional class: doctors, lawyers, clergy, engineers, architects, economists, managers, financial planners, computer programmers, etc., a social order defined by test scores and advanced degrees. He says:

<Teachers know what we must learn; architects know what our buildings must look like; economists know what the Federal Reserve's discount rate should be; art critics know what is in good taste and what is in bad. Although we are the subjects of all these diagnoses and prescriptions, the group to which professionals ultimately answer is not the public, but their peers (and of course, their clients). They listen mainly to one another. The professions are autonomous; they are not required to heed voices from below their circle of expertise.>