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Desert Solitaire
I had to get away from the pomp and ceremony of the inauguration and take a break in the desert. Back next week with some things to say about the incoming administration.
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Amnesia
I’ve come to realize that Gore Vidal seriously underestimated the amnesia of the American public. Especially New York Times reading, MSNBC watching, liberals, who’ve come to resemble “Moonies” handing out literature at the airport. To them I say–you can’t accuse … Continue reading
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Power
Last week I stated that the Democrats are not the party of the Left. Instead, their job is to prevent a real party of the Left from coming to power. To put it in crude sexual terms–they are a cock-block. … Continue reading
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Tagged Donald Trump, Fredrick Douglas, Karl Polanyi, Kayfabe, neoliberalism
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Cultural Revolution
It appears that the Chinese have exported their Cultural Revolution to the US in return for US corporations exporting American manufacturing jobs to China. This Cultural Revolution has been enormously beneficial to our feral elite in dividing and ruling, by … Continue reading
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The political aspects of unemployment payments
Trump could coast to a win in November if he would embrace his inner Keynes. Unfortunately he’s constrained by Republican orthodoxy, and right-wing think-tank ideologues who reject government interference in the so-called “free market”. This ideological opposition is nothing … Continue reading
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Second Chance
I always knew that the national security state and their corporate media handmaidens would keep Russia-gate alive if for no other reason than to hide their culpability in the attempted coup against the president. And with Trump’s reckless style … Continue reading
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Busy Little Termites
I find it perversely amusing that while doing good is so damn hard, doing evil is easy. Doing evil is especially easy in the service of wealth and power. Take neoliberalism, a shape-shifting ideology so nefarious that its proponents … Continue reading
He’s Our Boy
In the midst of increasingly shrill denunciations of Donald Trump, I’m vainly waiting for someone to acknowledge the obvious. He’s our boy. Politicians and their media allies want to pretend that Trump is some sort of aberrant outlier, but … Continue reading