Tag Archives: plutocracy

Looting Opportunity

Posted on May 1, 2020 by camelotkidd

We don’t do competent governance anymore. Everything is simply a looting opportunity. There are clusters of competence, of course, but they are overwhelmed by incompetence, corruption and callous disregard for anyone who isn’t wealthy or powerful. The elites have … Continue reading →

Posted in feral elite, neofeudalism, neoliberalism | Tagged Coronavirus, feral elite, guillotine moment, MMT, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, pandemic, plutocracy | Leave a comment

Socialism for thee but not for me

Posted on February 20, 2019 by camelotkidd

Trump appears to have found the theme for his 2020 presidential campaign–Socialism is bad!!! “We are alarmed by the new calls to adopt socialism in our country,” said President Donald Trump in his State of the Union address. “Tonight, … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged 2020 election, corporate socialism, Donald Trump, plutocracy, socialism, Wall Street, wall street crash | Leave a comment

Manufacturing Dissent

Posted on August 16, 2018 by camelotkidd

The US has an oligarchic system of government in the wake of the Citizens/United Supreme Court ruling that legalized political bribery. It turns out that all that stuff we learned in school about representative democracy was a pleasant fairy tale for children. The … Continue reading →

Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals, propaganda | Tagged Al-Qaeda, Alex Jones, censorship, corporate media, Democrats, Donald Trump, First they came, oligarchic system, plutocracy, propaganda, PropOrNot, Republicans, Russia, Russia-gate | Leave a comment

Duck and Cover

Posted on January 17, 2018 by camelotkidd

A year on it’s become clear that the McResistance to Trump’s misrule is largely about Democrats and liberals avoiding self-examination, while continuing the ruinous neoliberal and neoconservative policies that brought us to this point. For example, Trump came into office promising … Continue reading →

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We Live in a Political World

Posted on June 19, 2017 by camelotkidd

Why hasn’t a left-wing populist party arisen in the US in the wake of the Wall Street crash and bail-out by the government? Why have labor unions, environmentalists, racial and ethnic minorities not created an alternative to the fully … Continue reading →

Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals | Tagged banana republic, Bernie Sanders, Bob Dylan, class warfare, David Sirota, Democratic Party, Democrats, Donald Trump, economic populism, financial reform, financialization, Great Britain, Grenfell Tower fire, identity politics, labor party, Margaret Thatcher, mass shootings, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, plutocracy, Republicans, There is no Alternative, Washington Generals, we live in a political world | 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

Hypocrisy is thy name

Posted on October 23, 2016 by camelotkidd

Only our unique American exceptionalism could create hypocrisy so great that it threatens to blot out the sun. Historians have documented that empires fail when the discrepancy between what elites say and what they do grows too large. It’s … Continue reading →

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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

The Invisible Government

Posted on March 28, 2016 by camelotkidd

I welcome the political awakening I see among friends and co-workers, caused in great part by the rise of Donald Trump as the leading Republican candidate, and Bernie Sanders as a challenger to the Democratic establishment candidate, Hillary Clinton. … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Alex Carey, apolitical blues, banana republic, Bernie Sanders, corporate propaganda, Donald Trump, Edward Bernays, free trade, Ian Welch, invisible government, manichean, NAFTA, Paul Krugman, plutocracy, Taking the Risk Out of Democracy, TPP, unions | Leave a comment