The New Robber Barons: a Bill Moyers show from December that bears watching

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Bill's guest is Steve Fraser, author of The Age of Acquiescence: The Life and Death of American Resistance to Organized Wealth and Power. He speaks of how we are in the midst of another Gilded Age, with the exception being that unlike the original one, the people by and large have by and large have remained utterly disconnected from concern over the massive thievery by the super-rich.

This video and transcript strike at the heart of what keeps so many of us here at DU animated in the face of the Rightward gallop this nation has undertaken for 35 years. Fraser is that college professor everybody wanted. Please take the time to check this out, you won't regret it.


http://billmoyers.com/episode/steve-fraser-new-robber-barons/ - (full transcript available at link)

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1. also

"Our Protest-Free New Gilded Age"


https://onpoint.wbur.org/2015/03/26/gilded-age-occupy-wall-street-steve-fraser

American inequality is once again at historic levels. A second Gilded Age. Everybody knows it. A top tier doing great. Scooping up every luxury. Building mind-boggling fortunes. And millions really struggling to get by. To keep hope alive of a better life. In the first gilded age, in the 19th century, Americans were in the streets over inequity. Marching. Brawling. Demanding change. This time, says my guest today, labor historian Steve Fraser, it’s weirdly quiet out there. The Age of Acquiescence, he calls it. This hour On Point: wealth, power and “where’s the protest?” in America.

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2. Listening now, thank you