http://www.salon.com...rent_coming_back/

Yeah, he's that awful / voluble Idealist kinda guy.
Here's his mini-history / tentative projection in not so many words as usual..
for your further edification about the Plutocracy
... with some giggles in his sub-topic on the Plutonomy. With examples.

None of these overviews, of course, can offer any Realistic course for ridding.. either:
1) >US< of our short attention spans, the gullibilty of our superstitions and just. plain. sloth (I guess.)
2) >The U.S.< of the greedheads and marketers of brain-retarding junk food along with their junk-thought political proselytizing,
all aimed to keep all the proles in thrall: Thats what they wish to 'Conserve', right?

So, does it do any good? to see more and more talking heads actually Zeroing-->IN on the process by which it can be seen that 'democracy' was never our long suit,
merely a shibboleth to make more warz.
Maybe it's best to know your situation as accurately as possible ... for some personality types.

But others, who demand the Pure Fantasy Diet, are clearly in the majority.
May the IGM continue to bite those ricin-coated bullets, while maintaining a soupçon of savoir faire!
Eh?

aka Have a Nice Decade. Anyway.

Shogunate (See: non-farm payroll growth..)
Pity that the proles we 'educated' are innumerate (too.) If you can't read a graph.. you're already toast.

Shirley Bassey! The cat's pajamas, I wot. Gravitas sans histrionics. Nice selection.
Yep It's Over; we all wait for millions of shoes to drop (while hoping that not too many of those footfalls are of the Jack-boot variety?)
aka: the next Reactionary overturn of the SCOTUS in '13--all done with a smirk?

Luck to us all.

It Can't Happen Here / Sinclair Lewis: googling title gets a Zappa take and others'.