Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? — Meritocracy and Power
What happens when a political movement committed to equality begins interpreting inequality through the worldview of society’s most successful professionals?
Welcome to Crisis in Perception, where we examine the systems shaping our world.
Using Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? by Thomas Frank as our lens, this investigation examines Frank’s argument that the Democratic Party gradually shifted away from its traditional identification with organized labor and toward the highly educated professional-managerial class.
Frank argues that this transformation…
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