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Discontents
Rick Perlstein’s new book Reaganland chronicles the cultural discontents roiling America during the tumultuous administration of Jimmy Carter (1977 to 1981) that led to the election of Ronald Reagan and the end of the New Deal consensus. Perlstein describes the … Continue reading
American Nihilism
Why are Americans so desperately unhappy? What’s up with the opioid addiction, the mass murders, the deaths of despair, and the deep cynicism, that I’ve come to call American nihilism? Maybe this is all because we’ve embraced economic policies that condemned millions … Continue reading
Yay Resistance!
Members of the Trump Resistance are turning handsprings over the guilty plea of President Trump’s former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn for lying to the FBI about pre-inauguration conversations with the Russian ambassador. But, this case and its ramifications should trouble … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neoliberals
Tagged Consortium News, Donald Trump, FBI, General Michael Flynn, Hillary Clinton, Israel, Jared Kushner, military industrial complex, new Cold War, NSA, resistance, Robert Mueller, Robert Parry, Ronald Reagan, Russia, Russia-gate, Shattered, tax bill, the pawl, the ratchet, US Senate
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Leftless in America
In The Reactionary Mind: Conservatism from Edmund Burke to Donald Trump, political scientist, Corey Robin says that conservatism draws its power and purpose from opposition to the left. “From the French Revolution through civil rights and women’s lib, struggles … Continue reading
Posted in neoconservatives, neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged conservatism, Corey Robin, cultural issues, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, economics, Edmund Burke, finance, hippies, identity politics, left, long-standing fissures of the conservative movement, Mark Ames, Naked Capitalism, Reactionary Mind, Republican Party, right, Ronald Reagan
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Because Markets
Once again, there was a mass-shooting in America. This time in Las Vegas, where a 64 year old man sprayed bullets down onto concert-goers, killing 58 people and wounding 489. The statistics paint a horrible picture of gun violence in … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged 2nd Amendment, Ayn Rand, because markets, Constitution, creating and nurturing community is a revolutionary act, federal reserve, Going Postal, gun violence, hyper-individualism, inequality, Lambert, Las Vegas shooting, Mark Ames, Naked Capitalism, neo-feudalism, neoliberalism, NRA, Ronald Reagan, Shay's Rebellion, society, The Freedom of an Armed Society, wall street crash
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5 feet high and rising
Much of the Sturm und Drang over President Trump has got to do with the ongoing crisis in the legitimacy of the neoliberal dispensation. Let’s face it, our elite have made a hash of things and they can’t seem to cope … Continue reading
Posted in neofeudalism, neoliberals
Tagged 5 feet high and rising, corporate media, disaster capitalism, Donald Trump, Houston, Hurricane Harvey, Hurricane Katrina, Margaret Thatcher, Naomi Klein, neoliberal, Never Let A Seious Crisis Go To Waste, New Orleans, ongoing crisis in the neoliberal dispensation, rolling slow-motion horror that has been neoliberalism, Ronald Reagan, The Shock Doctrine
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Evil is Easy (Part 1)
Why is it that doing good is so hard while evil is easy? In my definition, doing good is cooperating with fellow citizens in a democratic manner to solve America’s numerous problems, while doing evil is playing on human … Continue reading
Posted in neoliberals
Tagged Alex Molnar, charter schools, Dismantling Public Education, divide and rule, education, evil is easy, good is hard, Naked Capitalism, neoliberal, neoliberal economic policies, neoliberalism, off-shoring, privatization, Ronald Reagan, so-called free trade, teachers, teachers unions, vouchers
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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
