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The Trump Diversion
Many liberals would love to depose Trump and return to a normalcy where such a monster could never be elected. If only Hillary would’ve won, the thinking goes, things would have been so much better. I beg to disagree. As a … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged C. Wright Mills, critiques proliferate and mature across the society, Donald Trump, generational crisis, Hillary Clinton, inverted totalitarianism, Obama diversion, oligarchy, Political Economy of Obama/Trump, power elite, propaganda, Richard Wolff, Sheldon Wolin, The president for our milieu, Trump diversion, US system of oligarchy
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Behind the throne
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
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What Are They Good For?
What’s the point of having two political parties that both represent corporations and the wealthy? My first post at Camelotkidd was entitled TINA,—“There is no Alternative,” proclaimed by Margaret Thatcher about the superiority of neoliberal capitalism. This phrase, uttered with … Continue reading
Stupid Rich
“They were careless people, Tom and Daisy—they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they … Continue reading
All-American Oligarchy
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
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Tagged "free markets", economics, inequality, Jeffery Winters, New Deal, oligarchy, Simon Johnson
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