Corporate America has figured out it must back Republicans on economic issues and Democrats on Social issues
Americans of both parties once believed that no center of power in America should become so concentrated that it could force its views on every other citizen. What we saw in Indiana was not just a “miscalculation” by Republicans. We saw fully unmasked just who runs America, and the kind of America that they are bringing more fully into reality every passing day. It will be an America where the powerful will govern completely over the powerless, where the rich dictate terms to the poor, where the strong are unleashed from the old restraints of culture and place, where libertarian indifference—whether in respect to economic inequality or morals—is inscribed into the national fabric, and where the unburdened, hedonic human will reign ascendant. No limits reflected in political, social, or religious norms can be permitted: All are allowed except those who would claim the legitimacy of restraint.
David Brooks how to Make an Isis Radical in Redlands CA
NY Times following Eric Hoffer
Brooks stops short by not asking “why isn’t a nice tract home, a middle class job, a new wife and a newborn baby enough?”
Part of what unnerves Americans is the fear of this happening to them, which is tiny. What should unnerve Americans is why their life is so vacuous as to not inoculate themselves.