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Pitchforks

Posted on July 20, 2017 by camelotkidd

Since the election results came in the Hillary Clinton wing of the Democratic Party along with the corporate media have been in full cry over Russia’s supposed interference. Nick Hanauer, a Seattle-based entrepreneur, has a better explanation of why … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged 2016 presidential election, Democratic Party, deplorables, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Hillary Clinton, inequality, it's the inequality stupid, neocons, neofeudalism, neoliberal, Nick Hanauer, pitchforks, racism, Russia | 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

Like Ike

Posted on November 22, 2016 by camelotkidd

Before he took office, President Obama professed his admiration of President Reagan. Lately he’s behaving like President Eisenhower. Eisenhower, after creating the military-industrial-complex and nascent deep state, famously warned against it. As he was leaving office. Many Americans remember Eisenhower’s … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals | Tagged Allan Dulles, Barak Obama, CIA, Citigroup, Cold War, deep state, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Glass-Steagall Act, globalization, golf, Hope and Change, inequality, John Foster Dulles, Larry Summers, Like Ike, Little Timmy, MIC, military industrial complex, regime change, State Department, Tim Geithner, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Because Markets

Posted on July 22, 2016 by camelotkidd

Neoliberals believe that a market society is the natural and inexorable state of humankind, where Americans are not citizens so much as consumers. However, neoliberals recognize that this state of affairs will not arise naturally and must be constructed through … Continue reading →

Posted in neoliberals | Tagged ACA, Affordable Care Act, flock of diseased chickens, fracking, global warming, inequality, judo, Lambert, local economy, market as a religion, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, Obamacare, President Obama, progressive community/mass movement, Salt March, seize the market, shop till you drop, toxic algae, TPP, TTIP | Leave a comment

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

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

Political-economy of despair

Posted on April 26, 2016 by camelotkidd

Ideology is powerful. Neoliberal economist’s have internalized Margaret Thatcher’s maxim that there’s no alternative. The market knows best. All the government can do is get out of the way and let the market do its thing. American’s must never … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2016 presidential election, alternative to neoliberalism, American exceptionalism, banana republic, because markets, Bernie Sanders, economist, financialization, Gerald Friedman, go-die, government involvement in economic affairs, ideology, inequality, Margaret Thatcher, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, neoliberalism, no alternative, public health | Leave a comment

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