Ted Cruz announces

Actually, I don’t give a big rat’s ass about Ted Cruz.  He is a silly little man, although he has made me reconsider my awe of Harvard Law School, which awarded him a law degree.  Maybe he cheated.

Cruz is a lackey of a small sliver of the rich, with the support of duped people on the bottom.  Here’s an interesting factoid.  In 2014 Oxfam went to the World Economic Forum in Davos,Switzerland, with the news that 85 individuals controlled as much wealth as half the worlds’s population combined.

This January that number went down to 80.

Steve Fraser recently published a book about the disparity in wealth entitled The Age of Acquiescence:  The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power.  Fraser notes that in the first Gilded Age, between the end of the Civil War and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, millions of Americans were organizing and protesting against the extremes of wealth and poverty.

Now, not so much.  What happened to the strikes?  The Progressives?  The anger?  Fraser’s conclusion is that we don’t see any alternatives to the present disparity in wealth.  We can’t imagine another system. 

In a review of Fraser’s book (which I have not read), Naomi Klein takes him to task for not discussing movements that are protesting the new “Gilded Age.”  The reason Fraser might not discuss those movements is because they are powerless and ineffective. 

For example, Ted Cruz ought to be an object of ridicule.  Instead he is cheered at the “Christian” University where he made his announcement by thousands of brainwashed college students.  And he was elected to the U.S. Senate by the voters of Texas.