The Great Republican Revolt The angriest and most pessimistic people in America aren’t the hipster protesters who flitted in and out of Occupy Wall Street. They aren’t the hashtavists of #BlackLivesMatter. They aren’t the remnants of the American labor movement or the savvy young dreamers who confront politicians with their American accents and un-American legal status.
The angriest and most pessimistic people in America are the people we used to call Middle Americans. Middle-class and middle-aged; not rich and not poor; people who are irked when asked to press 1 for English, and who wonder how white male became an accusation rather than a description.
A friend of mine, Tim Sassoon says:
"IMHO this election will either be pocketbook (Sanders), or national security (Clinton)."
Well I don't how much longer the pocketbook can be ignored. Almost 75% of welfare recipients are the working poor, well over half of Americans are approaching or below poverty level, technological unemployment threatens to swamp both rich and poor alike and take down the system and its foundations leaving little or nothing to rebuild from and meanwhile a sclerotic collection of paranoid malcontents thinks the answer to everything is violence, on global, local and even consumer levels.
Capitalism failed American society in the 1930's. Are we really sure we have the stomach to watch it fail again?
