Rule by Sociopaths » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names

Rule by Sociopaths » Counterpunch: Tells the Facts, Names the Names:

Thanks to TS for alerting me (at his blog) to this outstanding piece by Morris Berman.

Ironically enough, the “oppressed” 99 percent that the Occupy Wall Street movement claimed to represent may not be that far from the ideology of the upper 1 percent. There has been much discussion, on the part of sociologists, as to why socialism never managed to take root in the United States, and the general consensus boils down to a remark once made by John Steinbeck: “In the U.S., the poor regard themselves as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”