Searching For Bernie (sanders)

  Listen to Bernie Sanders, and you hear, loud and clear, what ails our economy: declining wages, income inequality, the vanishing middle class.To Bernie, the cause of these problems is simple: Our economy and our political system are rigged against the little guy, who is getting crushed as the top one percent run off with all the money.  Listen to Republicans, though, and their diagnosis is entirely different. For them, the bogeyman is The Government, which gets in our way, curtails our freedom, and snuffs out America’s entrepreneurial spirit.  This disagreement, I think, is mostly rooted in a broader question, which is: Are the economic problems we face caused by structural weaknesses in our economy? Or are they causeby the character flaws of individuals?Put another way: Have these problems emerged because things like technology, globalization, and deregulation have funda