Yesterday, I wrote a pretty harsh review of Chris Hayes' new book, The Twilight of the Elites. However, there is much to like in the book. I thought the following quote was a good one for people around here to read:

As my father, a community organizer, once told me, the most difficult task an organizer faces when organizing the poor or working class is convincing people that they are entitled to something better, that they can assert their own claims and have them be taken seriously.

Of course, Hayes says this in the context of, "This is why it will be easy to get the upper middle class [What I call the rich. -FM] to fight the existing order." I fear that Hayes has a few things he could learn from his old man.