by Erik Kain on October 12, 2011
Protestors affiliated with the “Occupy Wall Street” protests wave signs and banners outside 1185 Park Avenue. I’ve thrown cold water on the ‘We are the 99%’ slogan two times (here and here) pointing out that wealth inequality is more starkly divided between the bottom 80-or-so percent and the top 20-or-so percent, rather than the top [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 11, 2011
Mike Konczal has an excellent post up parsing out the data and ideology found on the ‘We are the 99%’ tumblr. The whole thing is terrific so you should click over there and read it and then come back… He concludes: Upon reflection, it is very obvious where the problems are. There’s no universal health [...]
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by Erik Kain on October 11, 2011
People are fond of saying ‘it’s the economy, stupid’ whenever they talk about politics. But I wonder if we should say ‘it’s the culture war, stupid’ whenever we talk about economics. Recently, Redstate’s Erick Erickson started a new tumblr called ‘We are the 53%’ as a counter to the ‘We are the 99%’ tumblr that has [...]
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This has been making the rounds: To an extent, this is true. The western, industrialized world is far richer than Africa and most of Asia and most of South America. The poor and working class in America may indeed have hunger issues, but they are not starving the way that the poor of famine-swept Somalia [...]
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E.D. Kain is a blogger and freelance writer. Currently he serves as Editor-in-Chief of The League of Ordinary Gentlemen and writes a policy blog at Forbes. He can be found occasionally composing 140 character cultural analysis on Twitter. His writing has appeared in The Atlantic, The National Review, The Washington Examiner, and the now-defunct True/Slant.
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