Tag Archives: New Deal

Managing the Decline

Posted on April 19, 2016 by camelotkidd

We are witnessing the first presidential campaign since the Great Depression that directly challenges the essential features of the US economy. All the controversy over social issues and immigration is just so much distraction from the bi-partisan economic policies … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 2016 presidential election, banana republic, Corey Robin, Donald Trump, feral elite, Gaius Publius, Hillary Clinton, inequality, manage the decline, neoliberalism, New Deal, not a bug but a feature, Panama Papers, ruling elite, Ted Cruz | Leave a comment

Kindness is a Revolutionary Act

Posted on March 8, 2016 by camelotkidd

The Frankenstein candidacy of Donald Trump has been brought to life by neoliberal economic policies pursued by Republicans and Democrats alike. To be sure, Trump’s rise is predicated on his appeal to racial resentments and xenophobia. Normally this racism … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, culture of meanness, Donald Trump, economic insecurity, Emmanual Goldstein, FDR, Flint, Hillary Clinton, Hitler, Ian Welch, kindness is a revolutionary act, lead poisoning, Michigan, Mussolini, neoliberal, New Deal, savage race to the bottom, social-Darwinism | Leave a comment

Collaborators

Posted on February 2, 2016 by camelotkidd

The Great Depression so discredited capitalism that it created space for the New Deal reforms implemented by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. Many of these policies, influenced by economist John Maynard Keynes, involved massive government intervention in the economic affairs of … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bill Clinton, Civil Right Act, Corey Robin, FDR, George Wallace, Hillary Clinton, John Maynard Keynes, Michael Kalecki, neo-liberal, New Deal, Politcal Aspects of Full Employment, Powell memo, President Obama, Public-Private Partnerships, Richard Nixon, Rick Perlstein, southern strategy, triangulation, Voting Rights Act, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Termites

Posted on January 30, 2016 by camelotkidd

Movement conservatives should be viewed as termites gnawing away at the structure of the commonwealth. Like an unscrupulous exterminator, who surreptitiously introduced the termites initially then shows up to rid them, conservatives then benefit from this destruction. Since Reagan, conservatives have … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Democratic Party, dick like Snyder, Emptywheel, exterminator, Flint, get governments out of the business of basic governance, GOP, Governor Rick Snyder, lead, Marcy Wheeler, Michigan, movement conservatives, New Deal, P.R., poison, politics of resentment, President Reagan, southern strategy, tax cuts, termites, water | Leave a comment

Major Major’s father

Posted on January 21, 2016 by camelotkidd

The latest Sagebrush rebels remind me of Major Major’s father, a fictional character in Joseph Heller’s classic novel Catch–22. “Major Major’s father was a sober God-fearing man whose idea of a good joke was to lie about his age. He … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged anti-government protestors, Catch-22, conservatives, Joseph Heller, Major Major's father, Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, modern conservative movement, New Deal, Oregon, Reconstruction, sagebrush rebellion, takers, those people | Leave a comment

Two to Tango

Posted on January 7, 2016 by camelotkidd

We face a perfect storm of corruption in America, where corporations and the government conspire against we the people. The ongoing campaign to be the next US president is a bright and shiny 2-year reality TV show that changes … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged A Peoples History of the United States, banana republic, Bernie Sanders, corruption, crazy uncle, Donald Trump, FDR, Howard Zinn, Kabuki, New Deal, reality TV, US history | 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

Public Diplomacy

Posted on January 7, 2015 by camelotkidd

Neoliberalism and neoconservatism are not an accident of history. They are the ideological components of a sophisticated and largely successful counterattack on the New Deal, that commenced within seconds of the signing of the progressive legislation by President Franklin D. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Cold War, FDR, New Deal, propaganda, public diplomacy, Reagan, Robert Parry | Leave a comment

All-American Oligarchy

Posted on March 30, 2013 by camelotkidd

Deconstructing “free-market” economic ideology is why I started blogging. It was hard to miss that economic ideology was being employed much like religious dogma in an effort to justify conservative neo-feudal policies. These neo-feudal policies, best exemplified by the bi-partisan push … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged "free markets", economics, inequality, Jeffery Winters, New Deal, oligarchy, Simon Johnson | 1 Comment

The Empire Strikes Back–Continued…

Posted on March 18, 2013 by camelotkidd

The recent election was quite illuminating in understanding neo-feudalism. There’s always been a tension inherent in the vision of America democracy. On one hand are the Jeffersonians who see democracy as the natural trajectory. On the other hand, are the … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Crisis of Democracy, democracy, Hamilton, Jefferson, Mitt Romney, mob rule, neo-feudalism, New Deal, Scalia, Voting Rights Act | Leave a comment