For Mother's Day, Up host Chris Hayes shares his own experience in raising a child as he talks about how the US government supports mothers and families, and how that support compares to other industrialized countries worldwide.
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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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Another great show. I remembered what it was like to exit the hospital with my new baby as a single parent. I also recalled the difficulty of finding good child care. I never really did find anything that I had much confidence in.
It's amazing to have a show on every weekend that addresses the issues that real people have to deal with every day. A program that discusses the public policies that both create unnecessary problems and deny the 99% the easy solutions to problems like lack of daycare, healthcare, post partum support in the community, etc. We are on our own because politicians chose to use our taxes to further enrich the 1% with wars, oil subsidies, agricultural subsidies to big agribusiness (rather than organic farmers)etc, etc. It doesn't have to be that way.
Chris —
absolutely brilliant essay. Stunningly beautiful, symphonic!
I would like to carry it around with me on a giant placard (see my placards, — that's what I am reduced to, not having a TV show)