Posted on 06/16/2014 3:33:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The primary election defeat of House majority leader Eric Cantor by the little-known Tea Party conservative David Brat has shocked business and financial elites as well as politicians and pundits. Conservative intellectuals such as Tim Carney have been arguing for a while that the right should adopt a new populism that targets “crony capitalism” and the collaboration of public and private elites at the expense of workers and small businesses.
Brat is the first conservative candidate to have achieved a major electoral success by taking this line. He denounced Cantor for being too close to Wall Street and K Street, explained business support for immigration reform as a ploy for cheap labor and demonized the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable.
In his views about the minimum wage, Social Security and Medicare, Brat is a fairly conventional libertarian, but he became the first candidate to oust a sitting House majority leader since the post was created in 1899 not by speaking the libertarian argot of Ayn Rand and Friedrich von Hayek but by deploying the populist language of Thomas Jefferson, Andrew Jackson and William Jennings Bryan.
With that kind of talk, Brat and like-minded militants on the right are undermining the philosophy of market populism that has united the Main Street and Wall Street wings of the Republican party since the days of Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan. Market populism recycles the ideology of classic Jeffersonian populism—but expands the definition of the virtuous, self-reliant yeoman to include not only small business owners but also big business executives and capitalists. According to market populism, the virtuous yeomanry consists of family farmers and small, owner-operated businesses—and CEOs of multinational corporations and billionaire investment bankers and heirs and heiresses who inherited their wealth, like Paris Hilton.
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As if “corporate America” wasn’t already behind the Democrat/Republican Uniparty.
Now THAT is what I like to hear. We’re putting the fear in Big Business. They are even worse than Big Government because you can’t vote out Big Business. Don’t think ANY of them are our friends. They aren’t.
This writer has his head up his butt concerning the economic philosophies of Reagan and Goldwater.
If you look at big donors, they generally donate to both sides as a means of covering their bases anyway.
LOL, now Tea Party winners turn Tea Party voters Democrat!?
LOLOLOLOL!
Exactly.
Wow , never realized how Communist politico is. Since this is the first time ever I went to their garbage website to read this garbage article.
TP is nothing compared to OWS. OWS actually wear ski masks, march with torches to home of execs, tell them the people will not take it anymore and spray paint one percent onto their cars or house before leaving.
OWS wants to strip business of their money and “redistribute” it.
The Tea Party wants government and business to return to their respective corners and stay there.
Between “big business” supporting the corrupt establishment cretins of both Parties as they stack the deck and warp the free-market, picking their own winners and losers via government gravy, along with the corportate world’s push of the deviant homo agenda, I say to hell with them! They’ve allied themselves with evil, and are more enemy than ally, at this point.
Need to go after Big Union as well.
Stomp a mud hole in their ass!
“Now THAT is what I like to hear. We’re putting the fear in Big Business. They are even worse than Big Government because you can’t vote out Big Business. Don’t think ANY of them are our friends. They aren’t.”
Before we get too excited about this article, we would do well to research the author. Michael Lind is a major contributor at Salon for starters.
Big business multinationals that control the Chamber of Commerce want open borders, socialized medicine, a welfare state, completely fair trade even if it devastates the US economy, international economic blocs, one world government, etc.
So they already support the Democrat party. But they want to buy off the Republican leaders so that they don’t oppose this agenda.
They are not loyal to America. They see Americans as no different than starving fourth world people, so they should be treated no differently. If slavery was legal, they would embrace it. Since it isn’t, they strive to create “the next best thing” to slavery.
America owes them nothing. If they want to compete fairly, pay a fair wage, respect our borders, employ Americans if at all possible, and pay taxes, only then do they deserve *anything* from the American government or people.
If they don’t, they can go pound sand down a rat hole before they should get one thin dime of support in any way.
They are driving them to the loving arms of Elizabeth Warren.
I have seen local Chamber of Commerce in action.
They will sell out established neighborhoods for a road.
They will put anything, anywhere for the chance for one extra dollar.
ie, Garland Texas.
This guy is insane. He describes Warren and the libtards as center-left and pro business. And the Tea Party is the radical right. Lol.
Oh come on. I keep hearing the Tea Party is DEAD.
I’m glad we’re FINALLY getting to the rut (a little Jocelyn Elders lingo) of the problem and correctly identifying where the problem is.
Here’s the chain of events:
1) Big business wants (maybe even needs) a plentiful supply of cheap labor, or work simply gets done overseas.
[note: “big business’ also includes Karl Rove, of course]
2) Big business DOES NOT CARE which party provides that labor, although they’d prefer Republicans since we’re better on taxes and overall regulations.
3) But labor is the most important (generally speaking).
4) Big business does not care about Amnesty - they would be happy with a large guest worker program and a lot more H1B’s (i.e., Mark Suckerman).
5) Again, big business does not care who provides the goodies.
6) The Republicans (and I say that to mean the conservatives, not McCain/Gram) say that they will provide cheap guest workers...but they must come here legally and then go home, and the Republicans say that to become citizens, they must apply through proper channels. And, finally, the ones that are here illegally, must leave.
7) The Dems say we will do all that under one condition - the ones here are instead given AMNESTY to become voters. Either that or nothing.
8) A stalemate.
9) Big business doesn’t care about Amnesty either way, but the only way to get their workers is if Democrats go along, and therefore we must have Amnesty.
10) The Dems pluck off enough idiot Republicans (including the House leadership) to be able to get a small majority in the House to pass Amnesty.
11) The Republicans are given a carrot and stick by big business - you want our money, you give us our cheap workers, and that means Amnesty in today’s environment. The stick is a money cut-off, as in this article.
12) Being that money ALWAYS wins in politics, the Republicans go along, ignoring phone calls running 50 to 1 against Amnesty.
But a funny thing happened on the way to the Amnesty vote - the base rose up and showed that they are capable of taking out ANY REPUBLICAN that sells out...money or not...leadership or not. Not a SINGLE Republican is safe anymore if he chooses to ignore the people that put him there.
So now big business has to decide whether to pull the plug on Republicans...and if they do, the Dems might not like that, because when Republicans ANSWER TO THEIR VOTERS, those voters turn out - money or not.
So this will be fun to watch.
Keep an eye on Michigan in August.
There’s going to be a public sector union bloodbath because teachers can leave their unions in August. Thousands have already simply quit paying dues.
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