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... we ditched reality-based economics in the 1980s in favor of libertarian, fantasy-based free market economics because reality-based economics couldn't handle stagflation. Now that fantasy-based, supply-side economics has caused the current stagflation what do we do? Go back to the...

Libertarians have had an outsized impact on our politics and our economy—much to the determinate of the nation. See the threads Libertarianism kills people and Libertarianism is killing our economy. As well as the argument below, Libertarianism killed conservatism. As I have said before, the...

An academic study of the participants by the University of Chicago in the 1/6 riot at the US Capital is turning up an interesting result. https://youtu.be/dskVval50AE A New Study Shows Us the Single Biggest Motivation for the Jan. 6 Rioters A new study on the January 6 Capitol insurrection...

Medium reprinted an article from The New Republic, The Libertarian Ideas That Wrecked the Fed, subtitled, Milton Friedman’s influence on America’s monetary policy blew up the past and mortgaged our future. I don't rate Milton Friedman at all as an academic economist. See here. He was a...

"QAnon" is becoming a word for fantasy thinking around the world. (Somewhat like many use the word "libertarian" in this country.) I offer an example of one of my Arsenal Football Club blogs, soccer to Americans, How QAnon has taken over football reporting in England. Bolding by me. So not...

Libertarianism kills ... people I am cleaning out my store of un-posted tomes. I wrote this in August when the article appeared but didn't post in deference to the people here who put more belief and faith into libertarianism than into reality. As this pandemic has ground on to top 370,000...

I am going through my store of posts which for some reason I didn't post. A discussion of whether a post by another was meant as satire or not reminded me of this post I wrote years ago. Although I would prefer to call the tone of this as being sardonic rather than satirical. I have learned a...

The title of this thread could be a template for any number of threads that we have seen here recently. The various threads seem to be searching for explanations for the current partisan divide that was exposed by the results of the recent election. Needless to say, this the same on every...

From Medium is this interesting article by a reader of the web site, Jack Luna, The Only Possible Way to Understand White Trump Voters. The vast majority of Republicans and conservatives aren't racists. Racism is idiotic, with no basis in evidence. Luna is trying to find an explanation for...

This is from the New York Times briefing letter for today June 30, 2020. This is the "actual reason" for movement conservatism, to achieve income inequality. We spend most of our efforts here on the "stated reason," social justice versus white male grievances for the most part, but for the...

Has anyone else noticed that the predominantly conservative and libertarian ideology that governs us has taken more than a few hits from reality during the pandemic? The champions of individuals taking responsibility for themselves to solve society's problems are recommending a lot of...

The state caught trying to deny the 1st and 2nd amendment rights of fine people by probable entrapment The all-powerful state has arrested six of Trump's fine people, i.e. white supremacists, for plotting to murder two antifascists and to overthrow the government. See this article in the...

... how automation will bring the end of work as we know it, ... racing government regulations to kill off jobs, and ... the cause of our current income inequality, ... the gilded age 2.0, ... which is definitely not caused by globalization, i.e. offshoring jobs, ... by weakening the...

I use a couple of news amalgamates, websites that look at news feeds and news websites and list the articles found for a single subject. They are good for two uses, finding out about a narrowly focused topic like my favorite English soccer club, Arsenal, and presenting different views of a more...

Will Brazil turn into the next Venezuela? ... will the US? My girlfriend from Brazil is staying with my wife and me for the weekend. Her husband is an ardent Trump supporter whose business is importing custom printed circuit broads from China and who has rather bizarrely convinced himself...

... because they are now on record of opposing motherhood. At least they are opposing the breastfeeding part of motherhood. U.S. Opposition to Breast-Feeding Resolution Stuns World Health Officials Apparently, there is no corporate interest too reprehensible for Trump and Company to not...

Marx was right - at least about somethings. We have another anniversary to celebrate tomorrow and it is a really big one, the 200th anniversary of Karl Marx's birth. This article from The Economist offers some advice to the Rulers of the world: read Karl Marx! or Second time, farce. The...

... while championing law and order, getting tough on criminals. Donald Trump ran as the law and order candidate to an extent we haven't seen since Nixon. He has called for the death penalty for large-scale drug traffickers, suspension of due process for numerous crimes and rounding up illegal...

The bipartisan Senate budget deal will pass at least the Senate. Then we are looking at a trillion dollar deficit in 2019, if it passes in the house. It appears that fiscal responsibility is only important when the Democrats are in power. That tax cuts and defense spending erase deficit...

I have pushed the idea on these pages that Trumpism is the inevitable result of 40 years of movement conservatism and neoliberalism. That its journey, pushed by the triangulation of the rightward movement of the Democrats, had gone ever further rightward through the full range of conservatism to...