Tag Archives: oligarchy

The Trump Diversion

Posted on December 14, 2017 by camelotkidd

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 | Leave a comment

Race and Class

Posted on September 18, 2017 by camelotkidd

How, in a nation based on slavery and genocide, did a black man like Obama get elected president? That’s the question I’m left with after reading Ta-Nehisi-Coates masterful essay on race entitled–The First White President. Coates central assertion is … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged Barak Obama, bi-partisan elite, class, class-war, co-opting left-wing policies, Confidence Men, Donald Trump, George Bush, My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks, neoconservatives, neoliberalism, oligarchy, race, Ron Suskind, status quo, Ta-Nehisi-Coates, The First White President, The Powell Memo, US empire, 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

plus ça change

Posted on September 30, 2016 by camelotkidd

Sometimes, I think that I’ve become too cynical. But, then I see something like this. Look, I’m for political comity as much as the next fellow, but that calculation is for a political system that crafts policies and hammers … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Barak Obama, bi-partisanship, George W. Bush, Hope and Change, Michelle Obama, oligarchy, plus ça change, plutocracy, rancid bi-partisanship, suckers bet, war criminals | Leave a comment

What Are They Good For?

Posted on May 29, 2015 by camelotkidd

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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Bernie Sanders, corporations, Democrats, disenfranchisement, fiscal conservatism, gerrymandering, Ian Welsh, Labor, Margaret Thatcher, neoliberalism, oligarchy, political parties, Republicans, Ronald Reagan, TINA, Tories, Wall Street | Leave a comment

Stupid Rich

Posted on April 24, 2015 by camelotkidd

“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 →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged 1%, banana republic, Brittney Cooper, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby, Naked Capitalism, oligarchy, Quiet Coup, Salon, Simon Johnson, stupid rich, Yves Smith | 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

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