Larry Summers told journalist Ron Suskind during the early days of the Obama administration. “One of the reasons that inequality has probably gone up in our society is that people are being treated closer to the way that they’re supposed to be treated.” Remember, as you let that last sentence slide slowly down your throat, that this was a Democrat saying this— a prominent Democrat, a high-ranking cabinet official in the Clinton years and the man standing at the right hand of power in the first Obama administration.*

gdn: This is the Democratic Party that Bernie wants to change!

Frank, Thomas (2016-03-15). Listen, Liberal: Or, What Ever Happened to the Party of the People? (p. 159). Henry Holt and Co.. Kindle Edition.