Brzezinski ang. republikanernas Never Never Land

But I worry about the other side of that, which is the one percent of the richest, who have the benefits of tax loopholes, and of preferential arrangements, and whoop it up without any responsibility, social responsbility, for our lives here in America. This is a prescription for social conflict as well as economic paralysis.

I still nurture the conviction that the residual assets of America are still there, that this society has the capacity for self-renewal and self-reflection, but we’re going right now through a kind of lunatic phase in our politics.  Look at the comments and speeches and perspectives shared with us by putative Republican presidential candidates. It’s literally frightening. These people are living in some sort of never-never land of illusions, slogans, passions, convictions, very unrelated to reality.

We’ve been very lucky because we’ve been a democratic society in which everyone felt they had a chance of rising. Today, social advancement from the lower to upper classes is faster in Europe and China than in America. We have right now a stagnant social, highly differentiated society in which the rich are getting richer, absolutely socially indifferent, they evade taxes right and left, and we’re indifferent to it. As I’ve said, this is a prescription for social unrest and economic paralysis.