Your weekly excerpt from one of my books. This week: "The Hidden History of Neoliberalism: How Reaganism Gutted America and How to Restore Its Greatness"
Thank you for this info- it’s becoming really clear why people say “both parties are the same”- one party needs to promote explicit clarity that they are doing a 180 on this -right now- yesterday even better.
Thanks for this history. Funny, not funny, that the last actual liberal/progressive Democrat in the US was Lyndon Johnson. Democrats' only connection to the middle class is that they are not quite as rotten as Republicans.
Damn, I had a fairly skeptical view of Clinton before. Now, I am thinking he isn't so smart or principled and that he really screwed things up and fell for the ludicrous crap dished up by the wealthy and powerful. Well, at least I can still believe in Hillary, his wife, can't I?
Did anyone ever investigate Milton Friedman et al for being active agents of something, somebody other than the United States? Or was he already in the big money pockets while advocating the drastic measures he and his group proposed for the USA and Russia? To what end? Or were they just on drugs - the drug of money? How did everybody else fall for it?
Something seems to happen to people as they reach a certain income level. Many become so enamored with their own wealth and their obviously “miraculous” ability to make it, that they completely lose track of any semblance of real decency and start regarding themselves as above everyone else.
I picture Putin like a turkey vulture picking at the near carcass of Russia. I wonder if that’s the picture our billionaires think of for the future of US middle class?
Is it possible that George Wallace was right all those decades ago when he said "There's not a dimes worth of difference between the/a Democrats and Republicans"?
Thanks again, Thom. This reads like an endorsement of every Democratic Socialist one can think of. They (we) are the path forward.
Thank you for this info- it’s becoming really clear why people say “both parties are the same”- one party needs to promote explicit clarity that they are doing a 180 on this -right now- yesterday even better.
If the world goes down the toilet, where will they hide? Do they think they’ll make it to New Zealand and if they do, they’ll be let in?
As I understand it, bunker security systems for oligarchs is big business in the us now…
Thanks for this history. Funny, not funny, that the last actual liberal/progressive Democrat in the US was Lyndon Johnson. Democrats' only connection to the middle class is that they are not quite as rotten as Republicans.
Damn, I had a fairly skeptical view of Clinton before. Now, I am thinking he isn't so smart or principled and that he really screwed things up and fell for the ludicrous crap dished up by the wealthy and powerful. Well, at least I can still believe in Hillary, his wife, can't I?
So much for yellow dogs. What is gained if you support the enemy that masks himself as one of you.
Did anyone ever investigate Milton Friedman et al for being active agents of something, somebody other than the United States? Or was he already in the big money pockets while advocating the drastic measures he and his group proposed for the USA and Russia? To what end? Or were they just on drugs - the drug of money? How did everybody else fall for it?
Something seems to happen to people as they reach a certain income level. Many become so enamored with their own wealth and their obviously “miraculous” ability to make it, that they completely lose track of any semblance of real decency and start regarding themselves as above everyone else.
I picture Putin like a turkey vulture picking at the near carcass of Russia. I wonder if that’s the picture our billionaires think of for the future of US middle class?
To continue -
Is it possible that George Wallace was right all those decades ago when he said "There's not a dimes worth of difference between the/a Democrats and Republicans"?