In a chaotic political situation, multiple factors are at play. In my view, however, the deepest crisis is political—the failure of political institutions to "promote the public good" as the Constitution promises. For 40 years, politics has become an insider's game, favoring the super-rich and corporate lobbies at the expense of the vast majority of citizens.
In 2006, we got to the bottom of the crisis. "There's a class struggle, no doubt. But it's my class - the rich class that is waging the war, and we're winning," he said.
Commandos are the corporate lobbyists who swarm into government ministries and administrations. Ammunition is the billions of dollars spent each year in federal lobbying and campaign contributions. The propagandists for class warfare are corporate media led by the super-rich.
The class struggle against the poor is nothing new – it was formally launched in the early 1970s and has been carried out with great efficiency over the past 40 years. For about 30 years, from 1933 to the end of the 1960s, the development path was much the same as in post-war Western Europe, moving towards a social democracy. The Supreme Court opened the floodgates for corporate money to enter politics after the former corporate lawyer entered the courthouse in 1972.