If you’ve been watching the Democratic National Convention, you now know the shape of America.

The nation consists largely of uninsured people struggling to pay the health care bills of their sick kids, people whose homes have been snatched from them by hard-hearted bankers, a massive army of the unemployed, women discriminated against in the workplace, greedy lawyers in big firms (plaintiffs’ lawyers excepted) who refuse to become community workers, rich people unwilling to pay their fair share of taxes, and returning veterans denied benefits by none other than John McCain.