Having watched U.S. politics tilt further and further to the right over the past thirty years, I've begun to suspect that the underlying cause is that the moneyed elite that have always dominated politics no longer feel they have a vested interest in the future of communities, states, or the country as a whole. In the past, they recognized an implied social contract involving workers, customers, neighbors, and the public interest, and never pursued their own narrow interests so far as to endanger it, perhaps because they understood that as fellow citizens they had to live with the consequences of their actions. It no longer seems they feel that way, and I think they would not shrink from tearing down the whole painstakingly constructed edifice in pursuit of a few more bucks
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