The Liberal Maverick Fighting Race-Based Affirmative Action

Old school American liberalism had little to do with the balkanization of America into varying, and often competing groups of victims based on race, ethnicity and gender/orientation. It was all about making sure that the working man got a fair wage, a safe place to work, decent schools for his kids and the reasonable hope that they might grow up to enjoy a better life than he had. And if perchance some misfortune should befall the family beyond the means of extended family or charity to take care of them, the government would make sufficient provision to help keep body and soul together until things stabilized and the family was able to again become self-sufficient. In other words, it was bread and butter issues. Today's wokery would be completely alien to FDR and Harry Truman. I found this to be...

Well worth a read.

Are the super wealthy the enemy?

Anti-Gnostic has an interesting and provocative post up suggesting the answer may be 'yes.' I have long seen banks, or at least the really large ones, as entities that do far more harm than good and are often little more than criminal cartels that have figured out how to game the system. But banks are usually run by the wealthy, on behalf of the very wealthy. Follow the money...