Winner-Take-All Politics
The grave necessity of Paul Pierson and Jacob Hacker’s book, Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer–and Turned Its Back on the Middle Class, was never clearer than the 2012 elections, in which citizens were presented with a “choice” between two competitie sub-brands of The Money Party monopoly. If you’re pro-war, pro-assassination, pro-bribery and pro-coal, you couldn’t go wrong with either guy. Which is why “Winner-Take-All” is mandatory reading for anyone who wants to understand how we allowed our democracy to be hijacked and what we can do to take it back.
