Study Shines Light On The Disturbing Oligarchic Tendencies Of Congress

[MisterP]

6. the 70s saw a huge and coordinated (I've seen the newsletters!) rightward backlash

Dow, the NRA, the Baptists, EvoPsych, even astrophysicists all were swung hard over to push the national atmosphere into full corpo control--not just economically but ideologically

anarcho-capitalism was made "the Oneanonly Merkin Way," so we get Rothbard saying it's more moral to let a retarded child die than tax anyone for their care, Friedman saying we need five Pinochets, and Greenspan saying derivatives shouldn't be regulated because they're beyond human understanding

so when any president praises Reagan for undoing "all the excesses of the 60s and the 70s, and government had grown and grown, but there wasn't much sense of accountability in terms of how it was operating"--as the very epitome of a "sense of dynamism and entrepreneurship that had been missing," removed by the "welfare state"--that president's gonna ream us