REVERSION TO ROBBER-BARON GOVERNMENT CONTINUES

White House, GOP Leaders Plan All-Out Assault on Federal Protections... meanwhile, it looks like ballot-box apartheid is back in season, too. What's happening, in my humble opinion, is that America is regressing. Capitalist political economy has progressed as far as it can go; perhaps it will eventually produce the United States as a sort of Byzantine Empire, a social form that has outlived its heyday but which lives on because no countervailing force is strong enough to challenge its hegemony.