Up host Chris Hayes along with panelists Richard Kim, executive editor at The Nation.com, David Sirota, author of "Back to Our Future," Linda Hirshman, author of "Victory: The Triumphant Gay Revolution," and Urvashi Vaid, author of the upcoming book, "Irresistible Revolution: Race, Class, and the LGBT Imagination," discuss the strategies that pushed the LGBT movement to the forefront and debate the best way to continue with the fight.
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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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I'm all for civil liberty and it's great when a minority group catches a break, but the whole LGBT subject is far from the most important in regards to the situation in the States. I understand and applaud the president's decision and am happy for RM as I'm a big fan, yet Gay marriage is not the pressing issue of the day. I get also that it's a great poitical topic as it exposes the "right" for what it is and says it believes in, nonetheless, enough is enough. The biggest, most important topic, and also that which harms more people is that of corporate control of the economy and the havoc that it wreaks on the populous in general. I'm happy for the LGBT community but now let's get to the heart of the matter corporate greed ! Je suis tout à fait pour les droits et libértés lorsqu'un group de gens sont discriminés, néanmoins, le sujet de marriage gay et à fortiori, tout ce qui touche à la communauté LGBT, n'est pas le sujet le plus préssant aux Etats-Unis. Je comprends que le suejet de marriage gay est avantageux pour la gauche, étant donné qu'il éxpose la "droite" pour qu'il est mais assez c'est assez. Le problème le plus profonde aux Etats-Unis est le contrôle des corporations et la disparité économique qu'il engendre. C'est bien pour la communauté LGBT, mais maintenant parlons poignon !