Sunday, July 7, 2019

Reich: Forget left v. right; it's democracy v. oligarchy

The former framing using spatial directions leads one to think there's balance is some mythical center. But it's been shown time and again that the actual majority in the US support policies indicative of democracy, like Medicare For All, a living wage, fair taxation, the Green New Deal and so on. So a better, more accurate and more effective framing is oligarchy v. democracy. Reich explains in this piece.

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