In Robert Reich’s piece There is no ‘right’ v ’left’ (The Guardian), he makes a very convincing argument about the relationship between the oligarchs vs. the right and left.
The key points I found eye-opening are:
- In the past, the left wanted public investment and the right wanted free market.
- Oligarchs want Americans politically divided so we’re distracted from the real looting.
- Americans are actually divided between oligarchs and democracy.
- The oligarchs are pitting the right against the left.
- The oligarchs are stoking tribalism to distract.
- Opposing the oligarchs means bringing the right and the left together.