Educating Ju-chang (Gini indeces etc)

[Max Sawicky]

> Max Sawicky wrote:
> 
> >Since I raised it,
> >I'll reveal my own unproven hypothesis:  people in the
> >U.S. don't give a damn about inequality.
> 
> Oh yes. My impression is that inequality had more salience as a 
> political issue when liberals could blame it on Reagan and Bush, and 
> not the normal operations of American capitalism. Inequality is worse 
> now than in the 1980s, but you hear a lot less about it now. You 
> could say similar things about civil liberties (wiretaps have boomed 
> in the Clinton years, and the Prison Litigation Reform Act is one of 
> the worst? the worst? incursions on habeas corpus since the Civil 
> War) and the environment (Jeff St Clair could fill us in on the 
> details). But on both, the liberals are largely silent.
> 
> Doug

To be slightly more precise, liberal elites -- celebrities, politicians,
media, richies -- have different, lower standards for Dems than
Repugs.  My impression is that the advocates still scream about
the same issues to a great extent (w/some important exceptions),
but their plaintive cries are not lent the same prominence, depending
on whose gore is being oxed.  [(c) Max B. Sawicky]

But how ordinary people think about inequality, or if they think about
it, is what I was getting at, and that's a separate matter.

mbs