When the only people in mainstream discourse who care about the working class are Wall Street investors, it really is time to ask where our politics went wrong.
Interpretation
This quote highlights the alarming reality that the working class is being overlooked in political discourse, except by those primarily interested in profit.
Timothy Noah's quote emphasizes the troubling situation where the voices advocating for the working class are not from politicians or representatives, but rather from Wall Street investors who have vested interests. This indicates a significant disconnect in politics where the needs and concerns of everyday workers are sidelined, raising questions about the integrity and direction of political engagement in society.
In practice
In a keynote address about economic disparities, this quote could be used to illustrate the neglect of the working class.
Karl Rove thinks we shouldn’t have Hillary Clinton in the White House because she fell and hit her head a couple years ago, spent three days in the hospital, and maybe she has brain damage. You know, I don’t recall the Republicans being this concerned with mental fitness during the years when Reagan was talking to house plants in the White House.
China is not a superpower, nor will she ever seek to be one... If one day China should change her color and turn into a superpower, if she too should play the tyrant in the world, and everywhere subject others to her bullying, aggression and exploitation, the people of the world should identify her as social-imperialist, expose it, oppose it and work together with the Chinese people to overthrow it.
Few businessmen are capable of being in politics, they don't understand the democratic process, they have neither the tolerance or the depth it takes. Democracy isn't a business.
What stuns me most about contemporary politics is not even that the system has been so badly corrupted by money. It is that so few people get the connection between their lives and what the bozos do in Washington and our state capitols.
Once again, the puppets on Capitol Hill are about to slam the Muppets on Main Street. The country still hasn't recovered from the Wall Street-induced financial cataclysm of 2008, yet Congress is preparing to enact the Orwellian 'JOBS Act' - a bill that should in fact be called the 'Return Fraud to Wall Street in One Easy Step Act.'
Marxists get up early to further their cause. We must get up even earlier to defend our freedom.
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