We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

—Louis Brandeis

@rbreich We COULD have a more equitable economy, but, unfortunately, too many of us live under a common delusion. “John Steinbeck once said that socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat, but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.”

― Ronald Wright, A Short History of Progress