It is so, so important to our social contract that everyone plays by the same set of rules. Right now, I think that a lot of people (such as small business own

It is so, so important to our social contract that everyone plays by the same set of rules. Right now, I think that a lot of people (such as small business owners who will never employ an army of offshore tax lawyers) are realizing that this is not the case. Hopefully this disillusionment will be a vehicle for positive change, but the past and present provide abundant evidence that there are tyrants and charlatans aplenty waiting to capture the popular anger and turn it to their own purposes. It is in all of our interests - from the richest to the poorest - to keep this from happening. We need to return to the lesson of the Progressive Era. There is an alternative to chaos, and it is to build a society in which the average person can justifiably say that the system works for them, too, and not only for the wealthiest.