I'm starting to get jealous of the French. Sarkozy is done for, it seems.
Back in the Anglophone world things aren't looking too bright. David Cameron is about to cut half a million jobs. Obama seems to be sitting in the White House waiting for the Tea Party wave to crash. Chris Hedges, as always, puts things into perspective, writing that the liberal class made this mess themselves.
The collective experiment with free-market capitalism has failed. I agree with the researchers who wrote The Spirit Level that the root of all of this turmoil and societal breakdown is inequality. The rich are getting richer and the poor and the middle class are struggling.
What happened?
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