If you are a blue-collar worker and you still havea job, you are looking over your shoulder: Not only are all those Mexicans and Indians and Chinese workers gaining on you, but changes in distribution are eliminating hundreds of thousands of jobs between the factory and the customer.
If you are a white-collar professional, odds are youhave committed at least a federal felony or two just in the course of doing your job, or so Harvey Silverglate argues in his brilliant and disturbing book Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent.
Indolent blue-collar imbecile Homer may not be a model citizen or a working-class hero, but youhave to look next door, at his squarely middle-class, born-again neighbor Ned Flanders to find where the slap invariably sticks.