[gusopol3]

Great article.

[Don Corleone]

The attack on Free Enterprise is relentless.

[Robert DeLong]

Excellent article, well worth the read. This needs to be passed to every liberal on your email list.

[kabar]

Fantastic article. Thanks for posting.

[Yollopoliuhqui]

Banks, Bankers, Banking. Conservatives need to stop rubber stamping every whim and whimper of the Wall St. financial oligarchy. Read Anthony Sutton’s “Wall St. and the Rise of Hitler” and Carrol Quigley’s “Tragedy and Hope”. We need to get smarter faster.

[palmer]

"The world of unequal incomes that liberals self-righteously lament, the world of concentrated, inherited wealth, of politics dominated by the concerns of a few, is a world constructed by liberal methods according to liberal ideals. “The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class,” Marx and Engels wrote in 1848. And there can be no denying that the ruling ideas of our age—diversity, multiculturalism, cosmopolitanism, gun control, free trade, unrestricted migration, sexual autonomy, feminism, environmentalism—are liberal ones."

The author makes a generally good point about the hypocrisy of liberal political wealth but he is clearly confused about a number of issues. First of all, he ignores the establishment Republican party sucking up to big money with the same zeal as the Dem party albeit with less to show for it. Second, he ignores the main reason that the politically connected rich get much richer which is the printing of currency to hand out to big banks and politicians of both parties.

There are a couple of other smaller points that the author misses. Free trade is neither liberal nor conservative although consumerism is more or less liberal but didn't make the list. The culture of the media including most entertainment and sports is ridiculously liberal including all TV which is all basically psychopathy or liberalism or both.

The authors points about environmentalism are sound although the larger point is that these so-called environmentalists have utterly no concern for the environment as evidenced by their nonconservative lifestyles. But what they do care about it the promotion of policies for enormous personal gains at the expense of Americans and America.

[indthkr]

US oligarchy bump....