"Lasch wrote that in 1995. Now, almost two decades later, the super-rich have achieved escape velocity from the gravitational pull of the very society they rule over. They have seceded from America."

Of all the political issues of today, this scares me the most. From the recent Supreme Court ruling to allow SuperPACs to the privatization of previously local government-run institutions, the secret class war that so many on the right deny is happening is becoming more and more prevalent. I truly hope this can be turned around, but the only way I see that happening is for people to achieve more faith in local, state, and the federal government and at the same time see the errors in this methodology. It may take some horrible incident of private ownership wresting the freedom from local civilians or it may just be a slow churning of ideas and a shifting mentality that forces us to wake up. Whichever occurs, I cannot wait for our collective eyes to open.

Unfortunately, if history can be expected to repeat itself, things will have to get very very bad before power is returned to the populace, usually violently and destructively.