The Great Divide

More from Wallis

"The great crisis of American democracy today is the division of wealth. The Republicans hate it when people talk this way and, frankly, so do many Democrats, but the political issues now are increasingly populist ones- which is another way to speak of "class warfare"- the rich against the rest of us.

"But the real battles are seldom discussed in a media that really hates the class warfare subject (perhaps, in part, because so many media reporters and pundits have gone through the dramatic conversion from middle to upper income themselves)."

-Jim Wallis, God's Politics