Thomas Frank is a genius!

By which I mean of course that he thinks as I do. As all right thinking citizens ought. He reveals this in an article he wrote in the Wall Street Journal (of all places when you see what he says). Now I have often been accused of being a reverse snob (by Carmen, for starters) but every single jot and tittle of this screed about class and the candidates makes sense to me. Read it.

And while I have no important book or any other public writings out to trash the way he refers to, I agree with the following whole heartedly.

If Barack Obama or anyone else really cares to know what I think, I will simplify it all down to this. The landmark political fact of our time is the replacement of our middle-class republic by a plutocracy. If some candidate has a scheme to reverse this trend, they've got my vote, whether they prefer Courvoisier or beer bongs spiked with cough syrup. I don't care whether they enjoy my books, or would rather have every scrap of paper bearing my writing loaded into a C-47 and dumped into Lake Michigan. If it will help restore the land of relative equality I was born in, I'll fly the plane myself.

for the record, it is a little known fact, but I prefer Courvoisier


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