The Exploding Pipe Dream

I defer today to Charles M. Blow on the New York Times op-ed page. Be sure to take a look at Bottom of the Heap, the chart he links to at the end of his piece. It's a shameful state of affairs that reflects (I'm making a wild guess here) a four-decade long decline in this country's social justice--and the rise in the power and influence of America's wealthiest few. It also reflects our country's increasingly conservative attitudes and the stubborn, wrong-headed belief in an economic system that demonstrably led us into our current crisis and keeps us there. Republicans have shown themselves to be blindly loyal to these false beliefs. All the more reason to vote for Obama in the next election.