Here’s a pretty good article by Bill Moyers which posits that “some things are worth getting mad about.” He goes on to list some examples, and then proclaims:

The middle class and working poor are told that what’s happening to them is the consequence of Adam Smith’s “Invisible Hand.” This is a lie. What’s happening to them is the direct consequence of corporate activism, intellectual propaganda, the rise of a religious orthodoxy that in its hunger for government subsidies has made an idol of power, and a string of political decisions favoring the powerful and the privileged who bought the political system right out from under us.

I agree wholeheartedly. If, when you think of “what’s wrong with America”, you don’t think immediately of this as the root of many of our problems, you are wrong. Some people accuse progressives of trying to start a class war when we talk about economic inequality. Let me tell you something – the class war has been going on for generations, and it was the wealthy who started it. It is the wealthy who perpetuate it in every act they make that serves to concentrate their wealth and power even more, to hang onto what they have at all costs.