Ignored in Charlotte: The Greatest Danger to Democracy

Charles Pierce, from Charlotte:

There is all sorts of talk about economics here, and we are told repeatedly that the future of our democracy depends on solving our economic problems. But income inequality is the single most dangerous economic problem to the continued existence of political democracy. It is the one issue among them all that could render us a subject people, and already is halfway to doing so. The Republicans deny its existence, while the Democrats seem trapped in an endless cycle trying to mitigate its effects without ever addressing its causes. So I'd like to hear more about income inequality, and a damned sight less about Simpson-Bowles and all the rest of it.

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