Progressives have lost one of their most talented writers in Joe Bageant, who assailed the corporate takeover of American democracy and the collapse of the middle class.
Only advertising has value in the cyberhive. In a nation whose social realism has been represented by advertising for three quarters of a century, that was to be expected.
Joe Bageant, Portobello Books. September 20, 2010.
"Economic, political, and social culture in America is staggering under the sheer weight of its white underclass, which now numbers some sixty million."
