Up host Chris Hayes connects the series of challenges to women's rights in recent months that tell a larger story on conservatives and gender politics.
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Over the past decade, Americans watched in bafflement and rage as one institution after another – from Wall Street to Congress, the Catholic Church to corporate America, even Major League Baseball – imploded under the weight of corruption and incompetence. In the wake of the Fail Decade, Americans have historically low levels of trust in their institutions; the social contract between ordinary citizens and elites lies in tatters.
How did we get here? With "Twilight of the Elites," Christopher Hayes offers a radically novel answer. Since the 1960s, as the meritocracy elevated a more diverse group of men and women into power, they learned to embrace the accelerating inequality that had placed them near the very top. Their ascension heightened social distance and spawned a new American elite--one more prone to failure and corruption than any that came before it.
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They've retired to "Quiet Rooms" to continue bad lawmaking amongst themselves. They do not retreat. They don't care that they're racists and misogynists. It's a feature, not a bug.
It's a shell game. The left is up in the culture war, the right is down, then the Right is back up again. Its race or gender or sex or religious preference. Who cares- the plutocratic elite could care less- the point of the shell game is that the misdirection be sufficiently engaging that both sides of the electorate aren't paying attention to the real deal.
-That the focus is not on their corrupt activities controlling legislation, gaining necessary governmental contracts or favorable treatment on leases or clearing regulatory hurdles.
Chris is on the right track with his position on global warming. I think his position is based on science. Yet global warming is a culture war. Culture wars are like advertising; The sale comes from credence. With politics, the losing side fails to be credible. Gladwell illustrated what happened to the KKK. It became known as ridiculous and and wack. I wish Chris could find some scientific spokesmen who assert that the denialists are out of touch in a way that would make them seem wack. I recommend the NRDC or the Union of concerned Scientists. The U S has to come into real physical world on this. Most logical policy issues including race and equal rights for women could and should be based on science.