Reply #2: Christopher Lasch, in Revolt of the Elites,

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argues that America's economic elites have abandoned the lower and middle classes to pursue their own enrichment. That idea seems to be gaining some traction on the net and in the alternative press. The government and the corporate elites have sold us out. For the last 10 years America's #1 export has been jobs. Business reports record profits, but workers pay declines. Taxes on the rich are slashed while our infrastructure decays and our cities fall into ruin. The complicit corporate media distract us from the looting of our economy with culture wars and trash entertainment. One need look no farther than your TV for the source of anti-intellectualism. An evening of watching television dumbs one down, numbs the senses, creates a passive and subdued populace. Unfortunately, nothing is going to change until people are ready to take it to the streets