Doug Henwood wrote:
> Wealth concentration hasn't changed *that* much since the Fed's first
> Survey of Consumer Finances in 1963. Why do people like Nader assume
> or imply that things used to be a lot better, in that innocent
> pre-globalized past?
It's an opportunist appeal to nostalgia. Incidentally, the world in which John F. Kennedy voiced that rot about tides and boats was a world which produced enough poverty to provide the rhetoric for the war against poverty.
Carrol
P.S. A note on jargon. We really should hold on to "opportunist" -- there are contexts in which it is Flaubert's *mot juste*.