How does the corporate media fight progressive governance? Consider the following from CNBC star Larry Kudlow of The Kudlow Report.
Let me be very clear on the economics of President Obama’s State of the Union speech and his budget.
He is declaring war on investors, entrepreneurs, small businesses, large corporations, and private-equity and venture-capital funds.
You don’t have to read the rest of it. Kudlow is doing what he falsely accuses Obama of doing. Kudlow is declaring war on Obama’s administration. Obama, on the other hand, is merely restoring some balance and fairness and sanity to a financial system that is currently redefining the term epic failure.
A real war against bankers and the bourgeoisie would look more like this.
Viva la revolucion!
A real war against bankers and the bourgeoisie would look more like this.
That’s funny.
Still in denial –
Kudlow should root for the success of President Obama’s policies, otherwise CNBC may send him off to join the long lines doing day labor jobs…..if he can get it.
smart money calls we’re experiencing a soft depression that may end up sealed hard.
At this level, ideology can perhaps best be understood as a common framework shared by different actors that configures political space-including who the actors are, what their alliances are, what their current and prospective interests are, etc., etc., etc. Ideology in this sense is not something that’s just in someone’s head, it’s an interactive reality, rooted both in realworld relationships between people and things (individually and collectively) and in how people interpret them.
Pajamas media cannot produce less coherent gobbldeygook. But there’s a point here:
As long as that hegemonic infrastructure remains firmly in place, there will be sharp differences between how things look seen through one frame vs. the other. These two frames are both objectively real. They are not just ideological constructs that different people buy into, though they certainly do depend in part on ideology for their existence-but only in part.
The point is that Paul and the other ideologically sophisticated vanguard leaders of the “left” need to keep their social position as smarter than the false-consciousness, hapless members of the Obama Fan Base. Those of us who stupidly participate in a broad based, racially integrated movement that includes people of all social classes, rather than the “leftists” who participate in white male organizations of college educated “professionals” who talk about hegemony.
I can’t read his stuff. I spent too much time in those circles growing up and I have no patience for their wankery.
I’m trying to figure out why those people are not just republicans.
I don’t get it.
They’re movement progressives. Most folks here might be too.
But what does that mean? What movement? I gave up on leftist politics because I couldn’t stand a ineffective politics that seemed to be no more than a bunch of status jostling among white professional men (mostly). volunteering for Obama was a very different experience.
it’s a temperamental thing. Ninety-five percent of them will vote straight-line Democratic but they’ll almost never defend Democrats, especially when they are in power. Power is mistrusted by that element of the left just as deeply as it is by the movement conservative element that still truly believes is small government.
Kudlow is a terrorist. Why do faux conservatives hate America?
Let’s get a group, go to the Citibank parking lot on Friday night, and randomly pick 5 bankers. Then we string them up.
That would bring home a little of the very powerful emotions many Americans feel toward bankers. We have bailed these pieces of shit out, and now they are cutting our credit, raising card fees, and otherwise screwing people left and right.
It’s time again for Bonnie and Clyde to do a little leveling of the playing field.
that would be immoral.
I did not say that it would be moral. I merely indicated that it would be positive.
We are in a situation in which the bankers, through reckless greed, outright theft, and the most blatant self-dealing I have ever seen in my life, have put our economy into a horrible position. John Thiel is the first guy that I would elect for my little necktie party, since his sort of approach exemplifies the problem.
The financial industry is already at war with real Americans. We need to win.
I’m trying to think of some parallels. French revolution? Was that positive?
For the people? Yes. For the Ancien Régime? Not so much.