Death of the American middle class

Republicans want the middle class dead. After all, they're a nuisance that wants so many damn things from government such as mortgage relief, consumer protection, unemployment benefits and who knows what. What today's Republican Party really wants is a managerial elite as described in James Burnham's book "The Managerial Revolution". Orwell reviewed the book in 1946 and points out that WWII produced a new
type of society in the west that wasn't capitalist or socialist and in no sense of the word, democratic. The rulers of this new society will be bureaucrats, technicians, business executives and soldiers. Burnham predicted that this new elite would crush the working class and reorganize society so that all power and economic privilege would remain in their own hands. Political activity, therefore, is a special kind of behavior, characterized by its own unscrupulousness. The great mass of the people would always be unpolitical. That means the self-seeking tribe would rule over the brainless mob. So we discover the political inspiration for "1984". General McCrystal, being part of the managerial elite, could look down on the community organizer in the White House. Joe Barton, R of Texas, can apologize to BP for having to pay for the oil spill they caused. (Notice he didn't apologize to the fishermen facing ruin.) Senate Republicans have no use for the unemployed or their benefits. They're not part of the military-industrial complex that Eisenhower warned us about. The banks are bailed out but not the homeowners. Now we have a really weird Republican candidate for Senate in Nevada named Sharron Angle. She is all full of conviction that we should eliminate Social Security and Medicare. Luckily, these Tea Party types are not likely to govern. They are the inarticulate voice of a middle class that is losing ground and wants to return to the old America, preferably 1945 to 1949 when we were the only ones who had the atomic bomb. Meanwhile, two wars rage on with no end in sight. Orwell said that the quickest way to end a war was to lose it. What politician is going to endorse that? The opium of the people continues with televised sports. Thousands cheer a mediocre soccer team in the World Cup for the simple reason that it represents the US. This has to be the last refuge of the young and restless. Once upon a time I came up with a formula for changing America: No drugs, no guns and no divorce. I couldn't get a single person to agree with me. The Constitution, you know.