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Heritage Pretense
Right Wing uses Covid-19 crisis to push their own agenda Heritage Foundation’s ‘National Coronavirus Recovery Commission’ Pushes Right-Wing Policy Agenda, Downplays Heritage Connection
Continue ReadingCoronavirus and Rightwing Rebellion
Coronavirus and Rightwing Rebellion: Retreading a Tired Narrative by Anthony DiMaggio Excerpt – worth reading the whole article “…To be clear, these recent right-wing demonstrations are largely a reiteration of old populist campaigns in support of “limited government” rhetoric and “free market” politics. They provide cover for reactionary efforts to enhance corporate power and profits […]
Continue ReadingShock Doctrine Again by Jack Weltner
After 9/11, the first thing Republicans did was to pass the Patriot Act, a major step toward right wing dictatorship. .It was written before 9/11 and kept in waiting. Such a bill could never get popular support. 9/11 insured its passage. In 2007, Naomi Klein wrote “The Shock Doctrine; The Rise of Disaster Capitalism” detailing […]
Continue ReadingIt Feels Awful to be Right by Frank Kashner
“The most deaths and the greatest economic destruction“ I feel a little like Cassandra, the mythological woman whose curse was to see the impending future but have nobody believe her. I saw the future because historian Nancy MacLean, in her book Democracy in Chains, accurately portrayed what has been happening in the United States over […]
Continue ReadingTwo Sides by Rod Kessler
I want to assume that anyone reading opinion pieces these days is more concerned about the worrisome coronavirus pandemic than about political philosophy. If we’re thinking about politics at all, we’re probably focusing on Donald Trump. Did the way he downplayed the risks for so long cost the nation its shot at nipping the epidemic […]
Continue ReadingLet’em DIE? Another Koch voice …
From The Intellectualist: The Federalist Asks: Would America Be “Better Off” By Letting Thousands Die? JakeThomas Mar 23, 2020 Jonathan Ashbach wrote that it isn’t “callous” to consider letting people die if it means normalcy for everyone else. (more)
Continue ReadingKochNet – $1 billion to cut CDC
From The Intercept – thanks Ann J. Charles Koch Network Pushed $1 Billion Cut to CDC, Now Attacks Shelter-in-Place Policies for Harming BusinessLee Fang March 26 2020, 3:20 p.m. Americans for Prosperity, the pro-corporate pressure group founded and funded by billionaire industrialist Charles Koch, wants employees to return to work despite desperate pleas from public […]
Continue ReadingMisinform the Majority
Great, necessary read for #resistance . Misinforming the Majority: A Deliberate Strategy of Right-Wing Libertarians https://t.co/GEwgSRySGj — Mark Ruffalo (@MarkRuffalo) July 9, 2017
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