Tag Archives: divide and rule

Political Codependency

Posted on June 12, 2020 by camelotkidd

Both of our political parties use race to take advantage of their constituents. The GOP scares lower-class white people to vote against their class interests by invoking the specter of “big-black-bucks purchasing T-bone steaks with food stamps”, or something. The … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neoliberalism | Tagged Barak Obama, divide and rule, Donald Trump, Martin Luther King Jr., neoliberalism, Poor Peoples Campaign | Leave a comment

Evil is Easy (Part 1)

Posted on March 16, 2017 by camelotkidd

Why is it that doing good is so hard while evil is easy? In my definition, doing good is cooperating with fellow citizens in a democratic manner to solve America’s numerous problems, while doing evil is playing on human … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Alex Molnar, charter schools, Dismantling Public Education, divide and rule, education, evil is easy, good is hard, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, off-shoring, privatization, Ronald Reagan, so-called free trade, teachers, teachers unions, vouchers | Leave a comment

Necessary Lessons

Posted on January 4, 2017 by camelotkidd

Liberals lamenting the election of Donald Trump have not absorbed the necessary lessons. Rather than examining the policies of financial neoliberalism and the identity politics that provided neoliberalism its moral veneer, they are still blaming the Russians, or the … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged Brexit, deplorable, divide and rule, DNC, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, Kos, liberal, Markos Moulitsas, neoliberalism, new york times, progressive neoliberalism, propaganda, Wall Street, washington post | Leave a comment

Human Capital

Posted on June 12, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism reduces us all to market participants. To neoliberals we’re not citizens, just human capital. There’s a great article at Salon, by Anis Shivani, that provides a glimpse into this poorly understood ruling ideology. “Neoliberalism believes that markets are self-sufficient unto … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Anis Shivani, Bernie Sanders, divide and rule, Donald Trump, free speech, Hillary Clinton, human capital, identity politics, Margaret Thatcher, market apostate, multiculturalism, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, Salon, Teddy Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, working-class | 1 Comment

How Neoliberalism Became a Pejorative

Posted on May 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberal’s have gotten a touch defensive lately. Recently, New York magazine’s Jonathan Chait tweeted, “What if every use of ‘neoliberal’ was replaced with, simply, ‘liberal’? Would any non-propagandistic meaning be lost?” Neoliberalism is the generally accepted name for the socially atomizing, inequality-generating, environmentally … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged banana republic, Barak Obama, class warfare, Corey Robin, Democratic Party, divide and rule, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Jacobin, Jonathan Chait, Keynesianism, liberalism, market, neo-liberal, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, New Deal, no alternative, Phiip Mirowski, The New Republic, unions, Washington consensus | Leave a comment

Wedgie

Posted on July 30, 2015 by camelotkidd

To accomplish their economic agenda conservatives have historically used race, crime, abortion, and gay marriage as divisive wedge issues. It’s the same today. Indeed, government at every level is under attack by the forces of organized wealth and their political enablers who … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged abortion, conservatives, divide and rule, FDR, gay marriage, John Maynard Keynes, Mark Ames, Michael Kalecki, New Deal, New Right, Nixonland, Politcal Aspects of Full Employment, race, Rick Perlstein, secular humanism, spite, wedge politics | Leave a comment

Dr. Sunstein, we have a problem

Posted on August 23, 2014 by camelotkidd

What does it take to be a good American? Should we follow our elites and trust that they know best, or should we question and criticize official explanations? I’m reading historian Rick Perlstein’s latest–“The Invisible Bridge,” where he examines this … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Before the Storm, Cass Sunstein, Civil Right Act, divide and rule, Glenn Greenwald, Invisible Bridge, Lee Atwater, Nixonland, Rick Perlstein, southern strategy | Leave a comment

Not a Bug but a Feature

Posted on June 26, 2014 by camelotkidd

Watching the media coverage of jihadist group Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) rampaging across Iraq has been like a flashback to 2003. There’s Wolfowitz, Cheney, and Feith, invited on the “serious” news shows to share their expertise. As … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cheney, divide and rule, Feith, Iraq, ISIS, Saddam Hussein, Shia, Sunni, US foreign policy, Wolfowtz | Leave a comment

Not a Serf

Posted on January 30, 2013 by camelotkidd

Neo-feudalism is on the march in the United States. The US Government has been largely captured by the financial industry, and is operating against the rest of us. This business/government alliance is the 1% that Occupy Wall Street railed against. If you … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Cockburne, Civil Disobedience, divide and rule, Dr. Phil, Henry Thoreau, neo-feudalism, Occupy Wall Street, Tim Geithner | Leave a comment