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Collaborators
The Great Depression so discredited capitalism that it created space for the New Deal reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of these policies, influenced by economist John Maynard Keynes, involved massive government intervention in the economic affairs of … Continue reading
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Tagged Bill Clinton, Civil Right Act, Corey Robin, FDR, George Wallace, Hillary Clinton, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Kalecki, neo-liberal, New Deal, Politcal Aspects of Full Employment, Powell memo, President Obama, Public-Private Partnerships, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, southern strategy, triangulation, Voting Rights Act, Wall Street
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Termites
Movement conservatives should be viewed as termites gnawing away at the structure of the commonwealth. Like an unscrupulous exterminator, who surreptitiously introduced the termites initially then shows up to rid them, conservatives then benefit from this destruction. Since Reagan, conservatives have … Continue reading
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Tagged Democratic Party, dick like Snyder, Emptywheel, exterminator, Flint, get governments out of the business of basic governance, GOP, Governor Rick Snyder, lead, Marcy Wheeler, Michigan, movement conservatives, New Deal, P.R., poison, politics of resentment, President Reagan, southern strategy, tax cuts, termites, water
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Major Major’s father
The latest Sagebrush rebels remind me of Major Major’s father, a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s classic novel Catch–22. “Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He … Continue reading
Priorities
The US is the greatest country the world has ever seen, proclaim our leaders. It’s getting hard to take these kinds of statements seriously. In Flint, Michigan we’ve decided that we really don’t give a fuck if the residents … Continue reading
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Tagged 1984, American exceptionalism, banana republic, class warfare, deep state, Emmanual Goldstein, Flint, George Orwell, lead exposure, Maslow's hierarchy of needs, Michigan water, middle-class, Mike Lofgren, neoliberalism, nuclear weapons, Rick Snyder, self-actualized, wall street crash
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Monsters Among Us
Ever wondered why Hilary Clinton was such a horrible Secretary of State? Wonder no longer. Salon has a story out today entitled–“E-mails expose close ties between Hillary Clinton and accused war criminal Henry Kissinger: Kissinger met regularly with Secretary … Continue reading
Contradictions
What do secret wars, regime change, spying on Americans, and bailouts for Wall Street have in common? They’re all policies of the deep state, according to Mike Lofgren, the Republican congressional staffer who wrote the groundbreaking essay Anatomy of a … Continue reading
Two to Tango
We face a perfect storm of corruption in America, where corporations and the government conspire against we the people. The ongoing campaign to be the next US president is a bright and shiny 2-year reality TV show that changes … Continue reading
