Tag Archives: Donald Trump

It’s the economy, stupid

Posted on April 25, 2017 by camelotkidd

In retrospect it seems obvious, but political scientist Corey Robin argues that Bernie Sanders did so well in the 2016 presidential election because he’s the first Democrat in forever to offer a trenchant political analysis of the US economy. … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 2016 Clinton Campaign, Bernie Sanders, Bill Clinton, Corey Robin, Donald Trump, Hillary Clinton, Hope and Change, identity politics, it's the economy stupid, liberal McCarthyism, neoliberalism, neoliberals, new Cold War, New Democrats, political economy, Russians, Shattered, Tom Perez, worsening economic conditions | Leave a comment

The Weathervane Bares All

Posted on April 20, 2017 by camelotkidd

As I’ve stated repeatedly, the recent presidential election and its aftermath have been amazingly clarifying. Come to find out that the torrent of propaganda spewed out by the corporate media in the run up to the invasion of Iraq, … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Alice in Wonderland, corporate media, Donald Trump, fake news, flathead, rabbit hole, suck on this, talking heads, terrorism, terrorist patsy, terrorist proxy, The Weathervane, Thomas Friedman, war on terror, war on terror is a hoax | Leave a comment

Domesticated

Posted on April 11, 2017 by camelotkidd

Trump ran for office vowing to change US foreign policy and put America first. That didn’t last long. Trump’s cruise missile attack on Syria in response to the Syrian military’s so-called chemical weapon attack, marks the culmination of a … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged Al-Qaeda, chemical weapons, corporate media, Council on Foreign Relations, cruise missiles, deep state, Donald Trump, foreign policy, H.R. 608--Stop Arming Terrorists, Israel, liberal media, Listen Liberal, neoconservative foreign policies, neoconservatives, Nikki Haley, Rex Tillerson, Robert Parry, Russia, Syria, Thomas Frank, US Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard | Leave a comment

Manufacturing Consent

Posted on April 3, 2017 by camelotkidd

While our neoliberal elite have been more than willing to offshore traditional manufacturing, they’ve kept the manufacturing of consent right here in America. Though western countries claim to be democracies, they all suffer from income and wealth inequality, with many … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged advertising, Alex Carey, bull-shit, corporate media, corporate propaganda, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, Edward Herman, fake news, Hillary Clinton, inequality, Manufacturing Consent, neoliberalism, Noam Chomsky, plutocracy, propaganda model, public relations, Russia, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, think tanks, Walter Lippmann | 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 ideology that failed

Posted on March 8, 2017 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism is a failed ideology that has immiserated millions of ordinary citizens. Like communism, neoliberalism benefits a small cohort of elites at the expense of everyone else. Under communism, the vanguard of the proletariat, i.e. members of the Communist … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged affluent professionals, Amazon, Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, Chris Hedges, CNN, communism, Democratic Party, DNC, Donald Trump, economic populism, Gulag, Hillary Clinton, Keith Ellison, Margaret Thatcher, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, new york times, no alternative, NPR, precariat, ruling ideology, the ideology that failed, Tom Perez, Truthdig, Vanity Fair, washington post | 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

Illusion only is sacred, truth profane

Posted on February 14, 2017 by camelotkidd

There was much pearl-clutching by the corporate media when Trump blurted out the truth of US foreign policy in a recent interview with Fox host, Bill O’ Reilly. “There are a lot of killers.” Trump responded. “We’ve got a lot … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives | Tagged 9/11, Bill O'Reilly, blaming America first, CIA, Consortium News, Donald Trump, group think, Illusion only is sacred, killers, moral equivalence, narrative, National Security Council, new york times, pearl-clutching, perception management, PR, President Reagan, propaganda, Robert Parry, torture, truth profane, US corporate empire, US foreign policy, Walter Raymond Jr., war crimes, William Casey | 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

Behind the throne

Posted on January 31, 2017 by camelotkidd

Making sense of the Trump presidency will be challenging. It’s a new environment with all preconceived notions of the American political system vanishing. Up is down and down is up. For example, liberals, who traditionally viewed the CIA as … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged C. Wright Mills, CIA, Color Revolutions, deep state, deep state network, Donald Trump, figurehead, isolationist, liberal, Mike Lofgren, Mike Pence, military industrial complex, oligarchy, populist, power elite, PR, protectionist, Silicon Valley, TPP, US system of oligarchy, Wall Street, year of living dangerously | Leave a comment