After living through a 40-year neo-liberal dystopia with increasing income inequality and decreasing class mobility, the two party system is under mounting stress. Barry Eidlin, Assistant Professor of Sociology at McGill University, discusses the weakness of class-based political appeals in the U.S. and why there has been no labor or viable mass progressive third party to date in the United States. Barry’s book, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada is forthcoming.