Goodbye to all that . . .

Walker Evans and American Life (1996)

"Social and cultural historians have examined the dramatic effect the Depression wrought upon the newly emergent middle class: an enormous spiritual anxiety grew as the middle class - unlike the working class and poor for whom economic struggle was an everyday reality - faced the prospect of economic annihilation for the first time."

To understand how multinational malefactors of great wealth - who this time around are not jumping out of high windows - are using the effect of economic uncertainty on the Middle Class to corrupt its institutions of representative government, read Goodbye to All That:  Reflections of a GOP Operative who Left the Cult.

May there be plenty of rich guys like Warren Buffett, and few like the Koch Brothers.