The 99 percent were swept into the capitalist schema by the phrase “class envy” – these people had what all the rest of us wanted, supposedly. Most of us want a reasonable degree of control over the life of the country – that old democratic expectation that the lives of most of us should not be vulnerable to the whims of a self-interested elite. The ethic, for want of a better word, by which this elite has flourished is ethically repulsive by the lights of the population in general.
