The True Measure of a Society

This sentiment is alive in the United States today, but it exists in theory only.

Unless the U.S. makes a transition to align itself with the political philosophy of the rest of the developed world, which seems virtually impossible, it will roll through time with near complete indifference to the well-being of the common American.

It didn’t have to turn out this way.  In Teddy Roosevelt’s day, and up through about 1980, our nation meant business about organized labor, environmental responsibility, and trust-busting.  It wasn’t until Ronald Reagan that the wealthiest Americans had accumulated enough political clout that they finally got the lawmaking apparatus on their side, and the rest, as they say, was history.