FIRST GENERATE FEWER RENTS.

Former Secretary of Labor and long time public intellectual Robert Reich offers a modest proposal.  "What if the anti-establishment wings of both parties came together in a pro-democracy coalition to get big money out of politics?"

Here's the challenge: the anti-establishment wing that argues with, but generally votes for, Democrats, comes off as a vanguard, with the credentialed angry graduates on Occupy steering committees, or perhaps they're the colleagues of Mr Reich himself, managing industrial policy or trade relations, all of which smells of Governance by Wise Experts that generates rents.

It's also an attempt by the front row kids to hang onto their power.

One of the best formulations of this division comes from photographer Chris Arnade, who has spent years documenting the lives of America’s forgotten classes. In his characterization, America is split between the “Front Row Kids,” who did well in school, moved to managerial or financial or political jobs and see themselves as the natural rulers of their fellow citizens, and the “Back Row Kids,” who placed less emphasis on school and who resent the pretensions and bossiness of the Front Row Kids.

That's Glenn "Insta Pundit" Reynolds, and he's focusing, narrowly, on the invisibling of graduates of law schools not called Harvard, Yale, or Columbia on the High Bench.

But the anti-establishment wing that currently argues with, but generally votes for, Republicans, has little use for vanguardists, because it's just more posturing by the front row kids.

They hold us in contempt, but the thing is, now the student body is paying attention, and we hold the chess club, the student council, the cheerleaders, and all the other little stereotyped suck-ups in contempt right back. And there are a lot more of us.

The establishment has learned nothing. It’s members keep thinking that if they can be just a little more insulting, just a little more condescending, we’ll finally learn our place – which they contend is at their feet, forking over our lunch money.

That's Kurt Schlichter, cautioning the Bipartisan Establishment not to wish for some Deep State procedural maneuver to ease Our President out of office.

Somehow I don't see that cohort making common cause with Occupy or the Resistance.