I grew up poor. My mother raised a family of four on between $9,000 and $15,000 a year.

And now we're suffering the logical culmination of all this: the largest group of government-hati ng, racist, homophobic, misogynistic know-nothing, climate-change denying, evolution-denyi ng, science-denying , anti-immigrant House Republicans in history, bent on taking America back to the 19th century.

The largest party in America, by the way, is neither the Democrats nor the Republicans. It's the party of non-voters.

Any bank that is too big to fail is too big. Period.

The path to success used to be up and through an organization. Now the path to success is increasingly through self-promotion.

Standing up to bullies is the hallmark of a civilized society.

Britain's is traditionally a rigid class society.