As I continue reading EP Thompson lately (“Making of the English Working Class”), I think one of the outstanding points he makes in his work is the enduring propensity of the opulent class to suck all the cultural oxygen out of our ambient environment. It’s a power which, more than brute, physical force, accounts for their astonishing ability to sap all resistance against them by their vastly numerically superior adversaries in the rest of population.

Reading radical British historian EP Thompson’s “Making of the English Working Class” recently, the shocking parallels between 19th century Britain and 20th and 21stcenturies United States deeply struck me. In particular, the extraordinary challenges faced in both places by proponents of both majoritarian political democracy as well as the interests of the vast, working class majority stood out for me. Thompson emphasizes how inextricably linked the decades long struggle in England for both labor rights and political rights always were.

It’s amazing how Congressional Dems fail to do the absolute, bare minimum they could to rein in GOP abuses by federal judicial appointees, who since Reagan increasingly include disproportionate numbers of grossly unqualified, rank partisan political hacks. The “bare minimum”, I have pointed out before, would be invoking the Constitution’s Article 3, Section 2, which empowers Congress to prescribe the precise constraints on who and which cases enjoy standing to pursue remedies in the federal courts, and under which conditions.