The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
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INDIANAPOLIS – On a recent weekday afternoon in March, the Goodwill store on this city’s east side was buzzing with nearly two dozen shoppers – young and old, black and white, Latino and Asian — rummaging excitedly through the rows of blue jeans, piles of shoes, and shelves of luggage, books, and picture frames in a hunt for the best bargains to be had.
There was the time the president scolded black parents in Texas:
Y’all have Popeyes out in Beaumont? I know some of y’all you got that cold Popeyes out for breakfast. I know. That’s why y’all laughing. … You can’t do that. Children have to have proper nutrition. That affects also how they study, how they learn in school.”
And then there was the time he condescendingly lectured black men on Father’s Day:
Opinion — According to a nationwide study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), a greater number of U.S. Americans died (approximately 65,000) from drug overdoses last year than were killed during the course of the Vietnam War.
At the start of the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, President George W. Bush ordered the U.S. military to conduct a devastating aerial assault on Baghdad, known as “shock and awe.”
A worker takes part in the manufacturing of hats the Bollman Hat Company in Adamstown, Pa. (AP/Matt Rourke)
America’s Common Man exists no more – gone and forgotten. Once he was lauded as the salt of the earth – our country’s embodiment of what made us special, of what made the great democratic experiment successful, of what made of the United States the magnetic pole for the world’s masses.
Bob McNamara of Spillville, Iowa, and others, listen to Donald Trump speak during a campaign stop at the Electric Park Ballroom, Oct. 7, 2015, in Waterloo, Iowa. (AP/Charlie Neibergall)
