During the Great Depression which im old enough to remember there was and most of my family were unemployed working class there wasnt it was bed you know much worse objectively than today but there was an expectation that things were going to get better. There was a real sense of hopefulness there isnt today. Inequality is really unprecedented im sure that total inequality thats like the worst periods of American History. But if youre trying it more closely inequality comes from the extreme wealth in a tiny sector of the population fraction of one percent. There were periods like the gilded age in the twentys and the early ninetys and so on when a situation developed by the similar to this. Now this period 6 trillion because if you look at their Wealth Distribution the inequality mostly comes from super wealth. Literally the top 110th of a percent are just super wealthy. Not only is it extremely unjust in itself. Inequality has highly negative consequences on the so it is awful. Becaus
Kind of a quiet interlude to what might come . And then maybe talk about very much your area of expertise, the gerrymandering case. And does it portend other future decisions that we should be aware of . So i can but else i just want to say like mickey rooney, im just happy to be in the show. I think kannon is right, that the term mischaracterized in part by the cases the court took them by the case the court postponed taking. To make very high cases that were key to pry the beginning of the term and i think one set of them were actually on the summer from last year were cases about the scope of title vii, whether it covers discrimination based on Sexual Orientation or an gender identity. The court could have taken those cases last september and it didnt. It held off on those until april. It once again dodged a question that it had up in front of it in Masterpiece Cakeshop by sending the flowers case back in light of Masterpiece Cake shop which i think it of interest because Masterpiec
Good morning just go online oclock here in moscow youre watching international now on a visit to poland the u. S. Vice president mike pence has once again warned of russian interference into western politics. Now is the time for us to remain vigilant. About the intentions of the actions being taken by russia. As we stand together and as we see other nato allies follow your lead president to. Meet their obligations to our common defense we know their efforts will. Play what information was basing his crimes on there but there is a whole History Lesson of alleged russian interference into western politics that has been published by the daily beast according to that article russia has been practicing subversion for 100 years war against the it takes a look. There are a few legends as obscure and my ideas this one seemed leaguers the freemasons u. F. O. s the loch ness monster and big foot there is russian meddling and with every retelling someone nods and the little twist i mean who is go
Its been in the forefront of the. Efforts to improve the lives of the general population and its were going to slaver social a barrier to corporate tyranny so its the one barrier to this vicious cycle going on which does lead to corporate tyranny. Or a. Good major reason for the concentrated on us fanatic attack on unions on organized labor is they are a democratizing force. To provide a barrier that defends the workers rights grosser popular rights generally. Dont it that it interferes with the parotid. Our leaders who own and manage this society. I should say said andy union sentiment in the United States among elites is so strong that the fundamental couper of labor rights in the basic principle in the International Labor organization is the rate of Free Association which would mean the right to form unions and us has never ratified. But i think the us may be alone among major societies and their respect. Its considered so far out of the spectrum of american politics it literally ha
A corrosive harmful effect mockers. You open by talk about the American Dream or the American Dream is closed and bill if it werent for you work or you get rich it was possible for a worker to get a decent job. Get a core of children go to school. To a collapse. Imagine yourself in an outside position looking for mars. What do you see. In the United States when there are professed to like democracy. In a democracy Public Opinion is going to have some influence on policy. And then the government carries out actions determined by the population and thats what democracy means. Its important to understand that privileged and powerful sectors have never liked democracy and for very good reasons. Democracy puts power into the hands of the general population and takes it away from them. As kind of the principle of concentration of wealth and power. Concentration of wealth yields concentration of power particularly so as the cost of elections skyrockets which kind of forces the Political Parti