Kurt Andersen
That’s exactly right. And by the way, that combination of “do your own thing,” “find your own bliss,” “seek your own truth,” and focusing on profit and capital and material, I think you wrote a biography of somebody who embodied both sides of that ‘60s thing. [] But yes, I’m sorry. Now that I made my joke about you, no wonder I lost track of what your question was.
Well, and a year later the Federalist Society is established, and the rest is history. So again, I am not, as you know, a conspiracist or conspiracy-minded. But you look at the evidence and the history, and it’s hard not to see that there was this extraordinary, brilliant effort in many different places to bring about this change. Also this thing called the Business Roundtable was founded right then in the early ’70s as well. The U.S.
Right. Well, and you and I were a part of a New York media world which sort of sent up all these power brokers who were getting super rich and living like pigs in the Hamptons and elsewhere. We were both on the margin of it and making fun of it. But even at the time, we were like, Wow, where does it end? This is crazy.
One of the things he successfully ran on in 2016 was “it takes a thief,” effectively. “I know that. I know how these people work. I own these politicians. I’ll get rid of them.” Which was, in the ways that he is brilliant, that was a brilliant thing to do. But of course he wasn’t part of big business. Never part of big business. He’s a small business man who got big business, that is to say banks and Wall Street, to fund his vanities and follies for many decades.
Right, and it almost serves as a fun house mirror of everything that we already had, like a giant archive constantly coming at us. Well, I thought about that—you and I have talked about this in the past. But we talk about the 20th century being this anomaly of a monoculture in which you have a narrow band of media through which everything was coming.
The hopeful possibilities coming out of the pandemic and its economic consequences is sane people, sensible, reasonable people, will look and say, “No, we really do need an effective government to deal with not only huge one-off challenges like this, but both economically and in the public health sense. But no, *.* We’re not all on our own. Business can’t do it by itself.” To me it’s a case study that the reaction of the Trump administration and the right from the get-go [was], “No, no, no.
Joe Biden is unfit to be POTUS and Kamala Harris is unfit to hold public office...she should be in prison...NOT VP. Kamala Harris is a crook. NeverBidenHarris KamalaHarris = HillaryClinton v.2.0 DemExit
Andersen's point is there are no economic policy differences between the parties. Name a corporation not a member of the American Legislative Exchange Council, who have succeeded in eliminating or declawing state and federal regulatory agencies one model bill at a time.
Balanced budget crime bill anti-immigration New Democrats mirrored Reagan's sentimental law and order pro-monopoly deregulation and both morphed into W Bush and Colin Powell, both inexplicably excused for lying to the UN and conspiring with the UK to to initiate an illegal war.
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