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Good video by Molyneux today, echoes a lot of my feelings on the subject. Also includes an infuriating clip from the Bill Maher show which I actually used to like but now find unwatchable. How my opinions have changed the last 3 years…
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October 26th, 2010 at 5:39 pm
Great stuff.
October 26th, 2010 at 5:45 pm
Great stuff.I never tier of watching Molyneux.
October 26th, 2010 at 7:15 pm
I notice the people on Maher’s show said that the bailouts were good because “we got our money back”.
Not only was it economically harmful, reassuring bankers they need not worry about any of their errors (hence encouraging them to take bigger, more dangerous risks, and make stupid malinvestments), but it was also outrageously corrupt.
That Tea Party woman is incredibly stupid as well. No cuts to the military? Give me a fucking break!
October 26th, 2010 at 7:18 pm
Also, may I add that Monbiot is right this time? The Tea Party has been made, it appears, to serve the corporatists, not to deliver freedom.
It’s a damn shame that so many people are being conned.
October 26th, 2010 at 8:52 pm
AT,
agreed. Compare and contrast with the great Ron Paul.
October 26th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
AT,
my agreement was to the first comment. Re: the second, I think it more the case that the TP has been co-opted very effectively, but I think it arose spontaneously. It is to the benefit of both major parties for this to happen, which is why the democrats and left-leaning media were so eager to denounce it as extreme right, and force it back into the left/right paradigm. A truly non-partisan movement (by which I mean neither democrat or republican) is what really gives both sides sleepless nights.
October 27th, 2010 at 12:22 am
No political movement gives them sleepless nights
October 27th, 2010 at 5:40 pm
re: that Monbiot article, he’s making a fallacious argument. The fact that the Tea Party is funded by billionaires does not make it corporatist, if you want to make that claim you have to back it up with direct evidence, not a guilt-by-association smear.
The closest I could get to his central thesis is that ‘Cutting taxes and spending and eliminating regulations makes everyone worse off’, which is factually incorrect, and not corporatist in the slightest anyway. A secondary point is that TPs are too stupid to make decisions for themselves, which is arrogant in the extreme. I think Moonbat gets a lot of things wrong but at least I think he believes what he’s saying and has evidence in his own mind to back it up.
PS. I should point out that most people still use the word “corporatist” incorrectly. It defines a tripartate system whereby government, business and unions negotiate to set wages and working conditions, which is not what either the TP or Koch wants. In fact it’s a lot closer to Moonbat’s position.