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  • The Jim Crow iceberg and the end of Bilbo populism.

    The Jim Crow iceberg and the end of Bilbo populism.

    The false “left/progressive” narrative of post WWII history in the US ignores or minimizes the role of racism and race privilege for a myth that “Democrats abandoned the working class”.  The New Deal fell apart in the  1940s when Jim Crow Democrats in Congress crossed the aisle to work in…

  • Regressives at the New Republic and the imaginary generation gap.

    Regressives at the New Republic and the imaginary generation gap.

    An American who is age 60 in 2020 entered the workforce  in 1980 after the OPEC oil embargo during the Reagan recession where unemployment went up to 10.8%,  an era the regressives (who call themselves progressives) consider utopian. Jeet Heer @HeerJeet ·Apr 8 3. Here is the reality of the…

  • The Celebrity Apprentice Left and health care

    The Celebrity Apprentice Left and health care

    Democrats have been attempting to pass universal national health in the USA since the Truman administration proposed national health insurance and other reforms in 1945. “Under the plan I suggest, our people would continue to get medical and hospital services just as they do now — on the basis of…

  • Questions for Kavanaugh that are not pathetic.

    The Democrats are bound to waste the Kavanough hearings asking him to admit he’s already made up his mind to destroy reproductive choice – something he will fend off with airy nonsense about hypotheticals and open minds. Instead, maybe they could ask hard questions You were a core member of…

  • Robin Hanson and the Dark Web against America.

    Robin Hanson and the Dark Web against America.

    Robin Hanson, is a professor at a Koch funded George Mason University who recently confessed that the basic principles of democracy and the enlightenment are incomprehensible to him: I’ve long puzzled over the fact that most of the concern I hear expressed on inequality is about the smallest of (at least) seven…

  • Agency, neoliberalism, and anti-neoliberalism.

    Agency, neoliberalism, and anti-neoliberalism.

    What caused US manufacturing to off-shore and the white working class to abandon the Democrats? During the 1970s  a massive change in technology particularly communications and transport (like container shipping) made it easier to manage production at a distance and move goods by sea. More importantly,  economic advances in  India…

  • America’s “liberal” newspaper on economics in “unleashed” Germany.

    The @nytimes is well known for its “liberal” bias despite its role pushing the Iraq War, suppression of stories on Trump/Russia while engaging in hysterical attacks on Hillary Clinton, its sad role in hyping the Whitewater non-scandal, its suppression of a story on Bush’s domestic spying before the 2004 election…

  • A low dishonest decade

    A low dishonest decade

    I sit in one of the dives/ On Fifty-second Street/ Uncertain and afraid/ As the clever hopes expire/ Of a low dishonest decade:/ Waves of anger and fear/ Circulate over the bright/ And darkened lands of the earth, – Auden

  • White Workers and the evil neoliberal Democrats

    Most working class Americans will vote for Hillary Clinton but white people, particularly white men, will likely remain the base of the Republicans and the right thanks to racism. The civil rights movement and the (qualified) support of that movement by Lyndon Johnson and liberal Democrats and Northeastern Republicans, generated…

  • What, another post on anti-neoliberalism?

    Most of the time when some earnest leftie uses the word “neoliberalism”, he (and it is almost always a “he”)  means to imply nothing more than that he is a smart person in  possession of some  deep knowledge about how things work with the cool nomenclature. Sadly the more sophisticated…