War Against Elites: Frnks considers "The America that will vote for Bush"

Here’s an old article written back in February by Tom Frank in Le Monde Diplomtique that is well worth a read for the perspective it offers on the 2004 election. The article is entitled “The America that will Vote for Bush”:

That’s the mystery of the United States, circa 2004. Thanks to the rightward political shift of the past 30 years, wealth is today concentrated in fewer hands than it has been since the 1920s; workers have less power over the conditions under which they toil than ever before in our lifetimes; and the corporation has become the most powerful actor in our world. Yet that rightward shift – still going strong to this day – sells itself as a war against elites, a righteous uprising of the little guy against an obnoxious upper class.