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| What Trump must reverse, but won't |
| 2017-01-19 |
| ...At an increasing pace, politics in the West, especially in America, is the surest way to wealth, a 180-out from the West's history. As I explained almost two years ago in, "America is adopting the Middle East model, and it's not Islam," in the Middle East "wealth came from political power because there was no means to create wealth of significance apart of political power." ...Heretofore, the means to create wealth was dispersed. As the result, political power was dispersed along with it. Wealth gains political power, but political power was not needed just to create wealth. How bad has political thievery become? James Bessen of Boston University Law School says it is so deep that political lobbying is now the second-largest influence on profits for America's large companies. Government gets bigger and more powerful, which lures companies into viewing Washington as a profit center, which then leads to more policies that expand the size and power of the federal government, which leads to further opportunities for rent-seeking behavior. Lather, rinse, repeat. ...Bernie Sanders notwithstanding, the American Left is not socialist at all; it is fascist, which began in and never departed from Leftism. (Mussolini had been an active member of the Communist International before resigning to start the Fascisti party.) The Republicans are fascist, too, just not as much. But give them 15-20 years and they'll catch up. This is what Trump must reverse. But he won't. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #2 Or, put another way, the public sector must be the servant of the private, or a society is evil and murderous, ultimately. |
| Posted by: no mo uro 2017-01-19 18:43 |
| #1 Republicans are in the main conservatives who hate the descent to fascism that Mr. Sensing decries as much as he does. That they have the strength and fortitude to defeat it is not at all clear, but they will try. When the government is corrupt all players need to lobby and bribe, and only the big ones can succeed in doing so, independent of their party. Similarly, when terrorists run the government everyone must pretend to support them in order to survive, no matter what their inclinations are. |
| Posted by: Grins Snese4215 2017-01-19 17:08 |