Tag Archives: Democrats

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

The Other Ratchet

Posted on May 15, 2017 by camelotkidd

I’ve written before about how our political process is like a ratchet, where the Republicans apply rightward force, while the Democrats allow this rightward movement but whenever there’s a lull, they lock into place and prevent any movement back … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Bernie Sanders, conservative media, corporate media, deep state, Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, flak, liberal media, Manufacturing Consent, McCarthyism, new Cold War, new york times, NPR, Republicans, Russia, Syria, the pawl, the ratchet, Ukraine, washington post, wikileaks | Leave a comment

Accumulated Despair

Posted on March 27, 2017 by camelotkidd

Lately, it’s hard to write about any aspect of our shared experience without running headlong into evil. Take neoliberalism, an economic ideology that increasingly orders our lives to a terrifying degree. While neoliberalism may seem incredibly complicated, in my … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged accumulated despair, because markets, Case/Deaton, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, eliminationist rhetoric, evil is easy, go-die, homelessness, ideology, Lambert, matt taibbi, mortality, Naked Capitalism, neoliberalism, no alternative, opioid crisis, Thomas Friedman, wealth polarization, Whigs | Leave a comment

The Washington Generals

Posted on March 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The Democratic Party has transformed from a political party that represented working-class interests to a party that serves affluent professionals. In the process they’ve become a faux opponent very much like the Washington Generals who pretended to oppose the Harlem Globetrotters. … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Barack Obama, basketball, book deal, Democratic Party, Democrats, DNC, Donald Trump, faux, Harlem Globetrotters, Kayfabe, Keith Ellison, kick the left, Listen Liberal, Michelle Obama, Penguin Random House, pro wrestling, Republican Party, Republicans, Thomas Frank, Tom Perez, Washington Generals | Leave a comment

Abhorrent to the vested interests

Posted on February 28, 2017 by camelotkidd

Economist, Michael Hudson, is an iconoclast who writes and speaks against neoliberal economic orthodoxy. His latest lecture connects early Christianity with economic history, and argues that the reason Jesus was crucified was because he advocated a jubilee, or debt forgiveness. … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged abhorrent to the vested interests, Brothers Karamazov, Charles Dickens, debt, debt forgiveness, debt serfdom, Democratic Party, Democrats, Dostoevsky, economics, Grand Inquisitor, Jesus Christ, Jesus was a radical, jubilee, Listen Liberal, Michael Hudson, MMT, Nancy Pelosi, prosperity-gospel, Roman empire, technocratic liberalism, Thomas Frank | Leave a comment

Out of the shadows

Posted on February 22, 2017 by camelotkidd

After 70 years of anonymity the deep state has fully emerged from the shadows. In the wake of the surprise resignation of Trump’s national-security-advisor, Michael Flynn, stories about the deep state are everywhere, from the New York Times, to Naked … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Cold War, Consortium News, corporate media, corporate propaganda, deep state, Democratic Party, Democrats, Douglas Valentine, General Michael Flynn, Hillary Clinton, Julian Assange, liberals, McCarthy, military/intelligence/industrial complex, Naked Capitalism, new Cold War, new york times, propaganda, Robert Parry, Russians, The CIA As Organized Crime, wikileaks | Leave a comment

The submerged state

Posted on February 7, 2017 by camelotkidd

If the Democrats ever want to win another election they need to abandon neoliberalism. Post-Watergate Democrats turned their backs on the central tenet of the New Deal–that government should help Americans. In the process, they quit representing unions and … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged ACA, Cornell, corporate funding, Democrats, financialization, free trade, Les Leopold, Naked Capitalism, Nancy Pelosi, neoliberalism, One Market Under God, other corporate party, President Obama, Submerged State, Suzanne Mettler, Thomas Frank, Wall Street | Leave a comment

The Pawl

Posted on February 2, 2017 by camelotkidd

The recent election and its aftermath have been instructive. Americans who supported Bernie Sanders, were castigated as naive, political utopians who failed to understand that the only option was to support Hillary, lest the evil Orange-One prevail. And now … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged American political system, AUMF, Barak Obama, Bill Clinton, Bush 1, Democrats, Donald Trump, drone assassinations, executive branch, George Bush, Hillary Clinton, Ian Welsh, Nazis, Nuremberg, Patriot Act, public relations, Ratchet Effect, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, sabotage, the pawl, Wall Street | Leave a comment

The art of the possible

Posted on January 24, 2017 by camelotkidd

Politics is the art of the possible. It’s not enough for Democrats to simply oppose the policies of Donald Trump, they need to offer alternatives. And, while the marches and protests organized by the DNC and supporting NGO’s are … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, bold vision, capital, Democrats, Donald Trump, fiat currency, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, John Michael Greer, Labor, Listen Liberal, MMT, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberals, New Economic Perspectives, Robert Reich, Stephanie Kelton, Thomas Frank, too big to fail, universal policies, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Ruling Ideologies

Posted on January 11, 2017 by camelotkidd

Since the end of the Cold War in 1989, the United States has been operating under the auspices of two mutually reinforcing ideologies–neoliberalism and neoconservatism. By criticizing trade treaties like the TPP and NAFTA, while promising to mend relations … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged 2nd Cold War, all-American corporate empire, Andrew Bacevich, bi-partisan elite, blowback, CIA, Cold War, corporate media, Council on Foreign Relations, cover story, Democrats, Donald Trump, globalization, Grand Areas, Great Britain, hacking, liberal interventionists, Margaret Thatcher, neoconservatism, neoliberalism, no alternative, Putin, Republicans, ruling ideologies, Russia, Soros funded NGO's, Soviet Union, US intelligence agencies | Leave a comment