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A Flaw in the Model

Posted on November 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The election of Donald Trump was due, in no small part, to the abject corruption of our elite. In my last post, I examined An Economic Theory of the Criminal Law, where 7th Circuit Judge Richard Posner states that the poor require … Continue reading →

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We Live in a Political World

Posted on June 19, 2017 by camelotkidd

Why hasn’t a left-wing populist party arisen in the US in the wake of the Wall Street crash and bail-out by the government? Why have labor unions, environmentalists, racial and ethnic minorities not created an alternative to the fully … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged banana republic, Bernie Sanders, Bob Dylan, class warfare, David Sirota, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic populism, financial reform, financialization, Great Britain, Grenfell Tower fire, identity politics, labor party, Margaret Thatcher, mass shootings, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, plutocracy, Republicans, There is no Alternative, Washington Generals, we live in a political world | Leave a comment

Member Berries

Posted on December 6, 2016 by camelotkidd

To retake our country from the deep state we will have to end the American empire. To end the American empire we have to challenge the narrative of American exceptionalism, that has been promulgated with the help of a … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged all-American corporate empire, American exceptionalism, banana republic, deep state, Democrats, Dineyfied, Donald Trump, false narrative, genocide, golden age, Hillary Clinton, indispensable nation, member berries, neocons, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Republicans, slavery, South Park, straight-white-christian-conservatives, US foreign policy | Leave a comment

Border Guard

Posted on November 7, 2016 by camelotkidd

Going into one of the craziest elections in American history it’s important to remember how we got to this point. Hint–both parties have contributed to a slow-motion economic crisis. The Republican party, as it exists now, is an absolute … Continue reading →

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He’s Our Boy

Posted on August 29, 2016 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 9/11, American values, banana republic, bifurcated rule of law, Clinton, corruption, Democrats, Donald Trump, George Bush, greed is good, Nixon, Reagan, Republicans, scary muslim terrorists, southern strategy, xenophobia | Leave a comment

The Lesser Evil

Posted on June 25, 2016 by camelotkidd

Readers have accused me of being a Trump supporter. I’m not a supporter, but I do believe that he’s the lesser evil in a matchup against Hillary Clinton. I know, hear me out. The media has once again done … Continue reading →

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FIRE Alarm

Posted on May 17, 2016 by camelotkidd

We used to make things and employee people who were paid wages that they spent back into the economy. Finance properly allocated capital for productive ends rather than speculation and fraud. We had a productive economy that benefitted Main … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Adam Smith, Austrian School, banana republic, debt serfdom, elite resistance, financialization, FIRE sector, inequality, infrastructure spending, John Stewart Mill, Justice Brandeis, Main street, Michael Hudson, Milton Friedman, neoliberalism, Road to Serfdom, Simon Patten, tollbooth economy, Wall Street | Leave a comment

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