Robert Reich posted some observations he'd made while on a book tour of the 'red' states. He observers that "Heartland Republicans and progressive Democrats remain wide apart on social and cultural issues. But there’s a growing overlap on economics".
It has always astonished me people seem to have forgotten that when the Tea Party was just taking off, before it was over-run by the right, it was the nearest thing to a populist up-rising we've seen. At the time, it seemed to me to be an expression of angry disenchantment with the prevailing power structure and its lack of accountability. The Occupy movement, while less coherent in its message, was born of similar misgivings. As surprising to me is that these two groups are so divided on the 'social and cultural' issues that they can't come together to change a system that is beholden to wealthy political donors.
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