It’s darn hard to find an area where we and Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan agree. But there is at least one. Ryan says he is a big fan of the band Rage Against the Machine. Who knew Ryan—the Ayn Rand disciple and worshipper of unfettered corporate power—could find common ground with Rage, which has made a career out of singing and fighting for progressive causes and against corporate greed?

Stan Sorscher, labor representative for the Society of Professional Engineering Employees in Aerospace/IFPTE  Local 2001 (SPEEA/IFPTE), describes what he sees as an emerging American Aristocracy in this excerpt from Washington Policy Watch.

I went to France in June and couldn’t help comparing the French revolution to our own. So, let’s start with aristocracy, then we’ll get to Ayn Rand. Stick with me.