Economic Realities Are Killing Our Era of Fantasy Politics
By Matt Taibbi, RollingStone.com. Posted July 19, 2008.
Election season will be packed with horserace media distractions, but our economic situation is becoming a matter of life and death.
...If you're reading this and you had to drive to work today or pay a credit card bill in the last few weeks you know better than I do for sure how fucked up things have gotten. I hear talk from people out on the campaign trail about mortgages and bankruptcies and bill collectors that are enough to make your ass clench with 100 percent pure panic.
None of this is a secret. Here, however, is something that is a secret: that this is a class issue that is being intentionally downplayed by a political/media consensus bent on selling the public a version of reality where class resentments, or class distinctions even, do not exist...
...We're also going to be fed truckloads of onerous horseshit about the candidate wives...
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