The American working class is “an interest group”?

Labor And Business Groups Deny Immigration Talks Are Collapsing

It is, according to Benjy Sarlin at the liberal site, TPM.

Ask top GOP or Democratic lawmakers what their biggest fear is for immigration reform, and they’ll likely describe an apocalyptic war between labor and big business over guest workers.

With negotiations between the two interest groups slow and rumors trickling out of such a scenario emerging, leaders from both sides moved Thursday to tamp down rumors that their talks had collapsed.

Good grief, man.

The American working class is the people.

Phooey.

All right, the people, here, are ruled by professional politicians and government workers.

They most certainly do not rule themselves and their role in this mixed government, to speak Aristotle's language, is almost entirely limited to voting.

And that, I think, is as it must be, on the whole; though even given that the government could stand a lot of reform to make it both less aristocratic and less monarchic.

Anyway, our politicians are loosely affiliated with parties and factions, as is common historically among republics and so should not have come as a surprise to the founding generation.

Of the two major political parties, the Democrats are the lesser evil for the people of America, but still an evil.

And of the two major political factions, the liberals are the lesser evil for the people of America, but still an evil.

Both parties and both factions being, as they are, in thrall to the upper classes.

And that, too, is unavoidable, I suppose.