Strict-father State

Tea Party Religion, Picthforks for the Wealthy, Women’s Economic Security, ALEC

Suggested Reading Week Ending 7/20 Tea Party Has Become a Religion, Stopping the Devil Incarnate is It’s Goal Interview with Billionaire…

10 years ago

Excessive Corporate Intrusion Is a Major Factor in Maximizing Inequality

When FDR and LBJ passed laws which maximized equality by providing protections such as Social Security, the right to unionize,…

11 years ago

Neoliberal, Free Market Fundamentalist, Ideology of The 1971 Powell Memo Reflected in Koch Brother’s 1980 Manifesto

Decades later, Lewis Powell codified Vice President Wallace's "method" in The Powell Memo of 1971. The result was a proliferation…

11 years ago

Right-wing Authoritarian Neoliberal Ideology Has Prevented Universal Health Care for Americans

Economic neoliberalism, or free market fundamentalism, has been at work for decades in America transferring more and more wealth from…

11 years ago

Edward Snowden Exposed Our Authoritarian – Dual – State

The following are excerpts are from a recent article by Chris Hedges: Snowden, we are told, could have reformed from…

11 years ago

Success of 50 Years Of Fighting to End Poverty Minimized by 30 Years of Neoliberal Economics, But …

... social change is happening and growing inequality is the great enabler. Relative to Bill Moyer’s 8 stages of successful…

11 years ago

Maximizing Profit Morfs The Fourth Estate Into Stooge for Hire.

For some time, I have been promoting the use of profit-free media for news. There is a long list of…

11 years ago

Contested Concepts – The “O” Word

The following quote is from a blog posting by Marc Farinella : "Two final points from Lakoff; here’s the first:…

11 years ago

We Are All Born Equal — Just Not With Equal Opportunity

Progressives claiming that right-wing authoritarians are irrational is like right-wing authoritarians claiming minorities are mentally inferior to whites. They both…

11 years ago

Why Do The ONE% Keep Getting Richer?

An updated report on growing income inequality between America's profit makers and profit takers shows the growth of income for…

11 years ago