Alan Wolfe has recently written a new book entitled "One Nation After All." Based on inter-views with two hundred people in Massachusetts, Oklahoma, Georgia, and California, Mr. Wolfe found a "new" middle class that is tolerant, non-judgmental, and reluctant to tell anyone else his or her behavior is right or wrong.
He says in that book, "I see this as a place where the values of the 1960's and the values of Corporate America have come together,…the ‘60's culture is extremely relativistic and doesn't make judgments, so is corporate culture."
He then goes on to say that middle class Americans have an almost pathological fear for appearing judgmental, so they have added an 11th commandment: "Thou shalt not judge."1
Jonathan Alter, a writer for Newsweek magazine, echoes Wolfe's finding. Sp…