> Despite the decline of living standards for the vast majority of
> Americans in the last thirty years, it is still the case that a great number
> of them think that Gates has earned his money, that the poor are
> lazy and stupid, and that govt support undermines creativity
> and enterprise. That's "belief."
True, but that belief wasn't completely irrational - it was backed by the jobs spun off by a vast military-industrial complex, and by neoliberalism's 30-year credit bubble.
It's no accident that places where neoliberalism reigned but where those twin surpluses didn't exist -- Latin America, Eurasia, Southeast Asia, and the Middle East -- have all erupted into anti-neoliberal insurrections.
Our turn is coming.
-- DRR