WILL ECONOMIC INEQUALITY BRING DOWN OUR ENTIRE SYSTEM OF GOVERNMENT?

MARCH 6, 2020 | JEFF SCHECHTMAN

Are politics and economics even more interdependent than we think? Our guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Ganesh Sitaraman, argues that extreme economic inequality threatens the United States’ democratic form of governance.

Having been a longtime senior policy adviser to Elizabeth Warren and a Harvard classmate and close friend of Pete Buttigieg, Sitaraman, currently a Vanderbilt law professor, has a unique perspective on US politics.

Sitaraman brings deep historical knowledge to the discussion as he makes his case that today’s economic inequality is creating deep political instability. He argues that the general idea of economic inequality is something that the founders anticipated, and that we have historically prevented other such periods of inequality from destroying the very constitutional system the founders bequeathed to us. Albeit not without some pain.

He argues that previous attempts to use the government as an engine of economic reform have worked relatively well and have historically prevented economic elites from gaining too much unchecked power.

This time, however, he says it could be very different. If economic inequality continues as it is now, he warns, it could undermine the very idea of representative democracy.

(podcast with transcript...too long to post the whole entry).

https://whowhatwhy.org/2020/03/06/will-economic-inequality-bring-down-our-entire-system-of-government/

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I don't know, but I do know that Trump sees economic chaos as a good thing, because he wants us living under a dictatorship, AND wants to benefit Russia.  

https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/796502147693244416

You can't even figure out how the DNC screwed Bernie out of the nomination (again).

To be fair... he apparently doesn't know either.

Crazy the way the DNC forces voters all across the country to choose a different candidate! It must be a conspiracy!


(Somebody should call this stupid poker-boy's stupid mama to come get his ass, he needs supervising. Although anybody who raised something like him probably need supervising themselves...)

Condolences to all those like Pkr who were excited for a Bernie win so they could watch Trump eat him alive.

The only entity who screwed Bernie out the nomination was Bernie, along with the much smarter Biden voters.

Voting went "overwhelming" to Biden because Warren and Bloomberg bled votes off of Bernie. Warren knew after South Carolina that she was running out of money and momentum. She knew that she'd lose her own state on Super Tuesday. Look at the total votes of those three. That would've been a contest against Biden and changed the outlook and enthusiasm. I don't necessarily care... but this was pretty brazen.