“America is not doing very well,
but its corporations are doing just fine.”
Can you think of a better one-sentence summary for the entirety of U.S. sociopolitical history over the past x number of decades? I cannot.
Hail To You 
I cannot do better either. One sentence does just as well as a thousand blog posts and newspaper articles
As someone once said, “If you can’t explain your idea to a child, then you probably don’t know it very well yourself.”
Another contender?
I was all set with “Growth for the sake of growth … “, actually.
Good point, ML.
Keeping the world safe for plutocracy.
Nice one.
Did you coin that? It sounds like a slogan that’d appear on one of those faux “Message from the Dept of Homeland Security” mockups someone was putting out a few years back.
Whatever happened to, “What’s good for GM is good for America”?
That reminds me of “The business of the American people is business” (attributed to Calvin Coolidge, U.S. President 1923-1929)