from The Real News Network, an insightful interview with Jeff Cohen. Also you may want to listen to part 1 of this interview.
Here in part 2, Cohen traces some governing class's reaction to the gains made by progressive forces during the disastrous Vietnam War. After this turbulent period the capitalist class launched a much more aggressive campaign against working people while promoting their class interests of profit, power, and privilege.
What most people fail to understand in the US is that the two capitalist parties, Republican and Democratic, only represent, at most, different strategies to promote the interests of those who "own" the economy--the ruling class. At the very least, the two parties are designed to promote the false idea that people have real choices and that the US has a democratic system. Until ordinary people pierce the veil of these false ruling class ideas and realize that the economy is a legacy of technology and wealth inherited from previous generations of working people, nothing will change for the benefit of working people. Working people create all wealth. Capitalism is a criminal system devised to steal the wealth created by working people. In other words, capitalism is organized crime.