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By Stephen Pizzo (about the author)
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Neo-liberals will see the election as a mandate for all things liberal. They will see the collapsing economy as proof of capitalism's failure. Nonsense. Capitalism works, but only when the cops on that beat (regulators) do their damn jobs and those who break the rules don't get bailed out but jailed in.
Neo-conservatives will see the collapse of their party's former ruling majority as an opportunity for another Gingrich-like beer hall putsch to purge the last of their party's thinkers. Then with those naysayers out of the way, give their media propaganda outlets, Fox, Limbaugh, etc, the green light to whip up the Joe The Plumber types for the next round of culture war-races just two years from now.
Nation building, party building --two peas, same pod. It's our choice. We can be small and petty in victory, or magnanimous. If we choose the first we get a short-term rush and a long-term crash. If we choose the second we create a chance of getting back a government that can actually govern.
Yes, we can. (Yes we'd better.)
Become a Fan (7 fans) -- Page 3 of 3 page(s)
Neo-conservatives will see the collapse of their party's former ruling majority as an opportunity for another Gingrich-like beer hall putsch to purge the last of their party's thinkers. Then with those naysayers out of the way, give their media propaganda outlets, Fox, Limbaugh, etc, the green light to whip up the Joe The Plumber types for the next round of culture war-races just two years from now.
Nation building, party building --two peas, same pod. It's our choice. We can be small and petty in victory, or magnanimous. If we choose the first we get a short-term rush and a long-term crash. If we choose the second we create a chance of getting back a government that can actually govern.
Yes, we can. (Yes we'd better.)
Stephen Pizzo has been published everywhere from The New York Times to Mother Jones magazine. His book, Inside Job: The Looting of America's Savings and Loans, was nominated for a (more...)
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Okay, I'm puckered up and ready
by Jim Stinson on Monday, Nov 10, 2008 at 6:51:13 PM
I'll take the bait
by Jim Eldon on Tuesday, Nov 11, 2008 at 2:34:43 PM