He concluded that the Republican Party had tricked working people with a relentless propaganda campaign based on religion and morality, while Democrats had abandoned these voters to their economic masters by moving to the soft center of the political spectrum.
Maybe they had given up hope that the Democrats could add much to their secular well-being so they voted with their economic masters.
Earlier this week, Brown also restored Walling's authority to participate in economic development, master planning, intergovernmental affairs and community engagement, and will allow the mayor to serve on an advisory board.
As journeymen artisans moved out of what has been called "economic clientage" to master craftsmen, they found their interests in conflict with those of their employers.
Once derided as the consolation prize for failing to finish a Ph.D. or just a way to kill time waiting out economic downturns, the master's is now the fastest-growing degree.
Or will the new century be dominated by a Chinese form of national socialism, in which military conquest and outright racism is replaced by artful economic conquest and a master race of faceless oligarchs?
Will he be able to, as political scientist Ashutosh Varshney wonders, "stabilise economic development as a master narrative of India's politics, displacing religion and caste"?
CHINA'S continued economic progress depends on mastering the art of mould-breaking innovation.
"I was taken by a float showing an African drowning in the sea, who asks a European why he can't enter Europe," said Ali, a 29-year-old Moroccan sporting an orange moustache and flower-clad bowler hat, who came to Germany from Agadir in 2000 and has just gained a masters in economic science.
