Training America's Next Generation of Followers
Guess which child is heading off to the KIPP Academy?
Paul Krugman breaks down Romney's "Boca Moment," and tells us something about class stratification in the process:
Where does this disdain for workers come from? Some of it, obviously, reflects the influence of money in politics: big-money donors, like the ones Mr. Romney was speaking to when he went off on half the nation, don’t live paycheck to paycheck. But it also reflects the extent to which the G.O.P. has been taken over by an Ayn Rand-type vision of society, in which a handful of heroic businessmen are responsible for all economic good, while the rest of us are just along for the ride.In the eyes of those who share this vision, the wealthy deserve special treatment, and
