3. Mass layoffs in the 1990s from Clinton's policies re: defense contractor monopolies induced enormous anger from white men and their families whose lives were destroyed. Huge political impacts with consolidation in agri-business, banking, media, tech. And yet...
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14. It's time though to recognize that our political errors repeated over and over for decades, are a result of a flawed historical, where we read power out of economic exchange. Giant media and tech and banking enterprises matter in our politics. They just do.
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15. The only people who are making the case about economic power being meaningful are socialists, like Jacobin
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16. So listen to
@AnandWrites. If you can't incorporate the financial crisis, the role of big money philanthropy or big tech into your understanding of politics, then it's time to do some learning. Learning is good.https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1224313101971075075 …Prikaži ovu nit -
17. At any rate, to really understand the rebellion going on in both parties, you have to get into the guts of banks and corporate power.https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Goliath/Matt-Stoller/9781501183089 …
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Your chapters on the rise of libertarians in the 1950s at the U of Chicago and the great establishment crack up of the late 70s were particularly helpful for me to understand the current political moment. It's the first history book I've read in a long time with a clear thesis.
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This is correct. And the only reason there isn't more anger on the left is because the left in the US, unlike Canada, has nowhere else to go.
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