Showing posts with label Gilded Age. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Gilded Age. Show all posts

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

With Candidates like Romney and Ryan, we're just a few votes closer to a return to the Gilded Age.

Over the last month, I've been pointing out how business is confidently readying itself to take over the reigns of our nation, with actual directives to employees to vote Republican.

All of those instances were summed up by Bill Moyers the other day, in this editorial proclaiming a return to the Gilded Age:



I thought this was an interesting detail from the Gilded Age, and Wikipedia:
Following Darwin’s idea of natural selection, English philosopher Herbert Spencer proposed the idea of social Darwinism. This new concept justified the stratification of the wealthy and poor and coined the term “survival of the fittest”. Joining Spencer was Yale University professor William Graham Sumner whose book What Social Classes Owe to Each Other (1884) argued that assistance to the poor actually weakens their ability to survive in society.

Friday, October 19, 2012

Hearkening in the new Gilded Age with Employer Voter Intimidation.

Ed Schultz and John Nichols take a look at the latest conservative ploy to take down the country through employer intimidation of their employees voting choices. It's the return of the Gilded Age.

Thanks to Citizens United, such practices are now legally allowed in this country. It's really all over isn't it?