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@brenttoderian.bsky.social

In much the same place, I fear.
1) the extreme, wealthy right has been playing a very long game. Cf MacLean's #DemocracyInChains. The Democrats had rolled over and played dead since 1980 as far as any response to the right wings playbook went.

2) Gore is an adherent of the market based neoliberal mythology, and is unlikely to have meaningfully addressed the job/income/affordability issues that have led to a steady decline of support for the Democratic Party. I believe he supported a lot of the policies that led to the dot com bust, and the 2007 - 2010 financial crisis (sub-prime mortgages, etc) - Glass–Steagall repeal, for example.

3) I see no evidence that Gore, or any of his successors in party leadership, have any meaningful response to the "we can't afford...", "tax and spend", etc lines from the right whenever efforts to address underlying social problems.

4) the failure to address impacts of trade and manufacturing outsourcing to low cost countries.

“By 1860, two of every three of the relatively few Americans whose wealth surpassed $100,000 lived below the Mason-Dixon Line. New York at that time had fewer millionaires per capita than Mississippi. South Carolina was the richest state in the Union. The source of southern wealth was staple crops—particularly cotton—produced by enslaved men, women, and children for world markets. So matchless were the profits that more money was invested in slaves than in industry and railroads.”
Excerpt From: Nancy MacLean. “Democracy in Chains.”
#NancyMacLean #DemocracyInChains

@stalbaum @randahl

#DemocracyInAStranglehold

(1/n)

"I'm in the "I hope we can resurrect democracy in all of the countries including our own" camp and general strikes are coming."

A few years ago, there was this book about the #US, #DemocracyInChains.
In the #US, the next installment is in the streets, #DemocracyInAStranglehold, the same holds true for #Israel, and, increasingly, #India.
In #China and #Russia, it has already been choked to death.

Yes, #GeneralStrikes, as they would...

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan

(2/2)

..."...the Virginia school, as Buchanan’s brand of economic and political thinking is known, is a kind of cousin to the better-known, market-oriented #Chicago and #AustrianSchool|s — proponents of all three were members of the #MontPelerinSociety, 👉an international #neoliberal organization which included #MiltonFriedman and #FriedrichHayek." 👈

//

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@mina @number6

My comment on Trump Tariffs raise to 50% on Canada

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSHgJ1GNTWE&lc=UgzTohYvATOg_j1ZznF4AaABAg

#Buchanan #HeritageFoundation #CharlesGKoch #ElonMusk #Billionares #Dupont #RedScare #MAGA #SelfHarm #Politics #PropertySupremacy #Gaslighting #MagicUnicorn #Trump #FailedStateByDesign #Chile #Pinochet #DemocracyInChains

@mina
#USpol #BooksThatInfluencedYou
Day11:

I have been looking with increasing dismay at the political situation in the #US: they are a #DemocracyInChains, a book by historian #NancyMcLean.

(To be fair, I'm cheating a bit here, as I've so far only read a detailed but excellent article on the book so far:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598602729129143

It is on the top of my reading list, though.)
@evelynefoerster @VeroniqueB99 @si_irini @MaJ1 @mattotcha @2ndStar @energiepirat @SilviaMarton @forthy42 @GreenFire

@Snowshadow @Jeramee

#USpol #Economics
#MAGAnomics #MustReads

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...when right-wing economist, #Republican economics strategist, and later-day #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan founded what would later be known as the #VirginiaSchool.

#Duke historian #NancyMacLean, has written a fascinating, apparently well-researched book, #DemocracyInChains 2), about #Buchanan and his little publicized but effective machinations on #US international relations and #economic...

2)
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@pbump FWIW, #DemocracyInChains by Prof. Nancy MacLean does a very good job of documenting why the #GOP doesn't want democracy, why they don't, and in whose interests it is not to have democracy. (And perhaps also provides insights into why the #GOP is so scared of Critical Race Theory)

@stoprak Democracy In Chains is eyeopening was deeply stirring to me for some reason #DemocracyInChains##nancymcclean

@DrALJONES that book really impacted me. #DemocracyInChains
#fascism101

@DrALJONES #DemocracyInChains is a must read to understand what is happening now & since 1950s Brown V Board of Education. The basis of #GOP actions is deeply based in #inequality & #racism

Anybody wondering what I*m talking about re #KochNetwork #Cons - some great refs.
- Ask the environmentalists - DesmogBlog
- Tentoads4truth on Twitter - MegaThreads
- Indies
- dailykos RawStory truthout pressprogress
- Books:
- #DarkMoney -JaneMayerNewYorker
- #DemocracyInChains -nancymaclean5
- #ShadowNetwork - anelsona
- Orgs
#HeritageFoundation #CNP #ALEC #AmericaFirst #AmericansForProsperity #TurningPointUSA #FamilyValues #7Mountains #NAR ….
#ChristofFascism 😱😡🤬

@taylorlorenz might want to add this to your reading list if you haven’t already found them. #DemocracyInChains