Today's Must-Read: The Gilded Age, Redux

As is so often the case, this one's from Tom Sullivan at Hullabaloo. He starts off on Brett Kavanaugh (as in, call your senators), but segues into what is really the "conservatives'" vision of America:

Grover Norquist in his heyday dreamed of rolling back the 20th century and returning America not to the 1950s, but to the McKinley era. William Grieder wrote about Norquist's vision:

Governing authority and resources are dispersed from Washington, returned to local levels and also to individuals and private institutions, most notably corporations and religious organizations. The primacy of private property rights is re-established over the shared public priorities expressed in government regulation. Above all, private wealth–both enterprises and individuals with higher incomes–are permanently insulated from the progressive claims of the graduated income tax.

Industrial giants would be free at last (again) to strip-mine the economy, plunder natural resources, and re-establish the natural order of land barons and serfs.

The vision of the libertarian/conservative wing of society really is feudal. Kavanaugh on the Court would just insure that the haves will have their way for at least another generation. And the way things are going now, by then us peons will no longer be allowed to vote.