[lbo-talk] Krugman: Success of the Right is a Puzzle

[mike larkin]

"Money is surely part of the story. Recent statistics
confirm that income inequality in the United States
has returned to Gilded Age levels; maybe, then, our
newly empowered rich are in a position to buy
themselves a return to Gilded Age politics. Religion
is also part of the story: in effect, the religious
right—a majority of whose adherents are very much
losers in the new economic order—seems to have made a
deal to support low taxes for the rich and weak
regulation in return for a more Bible-friendly
government. And 9/11 was, of course, the best gift the
right could have wished for—a perfect occasion to
shift politics to a permanent war footing, in which
criticism of our leaders could be shouted down as
unpatriotic. But the success of today's right, despite
its manifest greediness and irresponsibility, remains
a puzzle. And it's a puzzle we'd better solve soon, if
we want to preserve the America we grew up in."

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16790

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