(#SupremeCourt, #SCOTUS) zu sehen, an den i. Ü. nicht viel später der vorgenannte plutokratiefreundliche #Demokratie-Brandstifter #LewisPowell berufen wurde.
Die politisiert-volkswirtschaftliche Grundlage lieferte hierfür jedoch der Erz-#Republikanische Witschafts-#Nobelpreisträger #JamesBuchanan mit seiner #VirginiaSchool-Kaderschmiede, bereits Jahre zuvor, spätestens ab 1965.

In diesem Jahrhundert wurde dann die #US-Demokratie vom ge"highjacked"ten @HistoPol @peter_koenig @HistoPol

Zumal das nun erneut massiv verschärfte #SGBII im #Bundesrat Thema war & damit eigentlich auch #Transparenz und #Oeffentlichkeit der dortigen Debatte gegeben sein sollte!

Aber zur Ablenkung - frei nach #JamesBuchanan - hat es ja nicht um Wahrheit zu gehen, sondern darum, daß ueber irgendwas gesprochen wird, nur nicht über das formal erforderliche.

Meint: "Flood the Zone with Shit" indem plötzlich auch noch von einer #ArbeitnehmerAgenda die Rede sein soll also noch mehr #Demokratie - Rueckbau ❗

superseded by Batman and Scooby Doo

A Fake Poem about the Life of James Buchanan
John Greiner

#Poetry #JohnGreiner #FakePoem #JamesBuchanan #ArthurRimbaud #Batman #ScoobyDoo #Orpheus

https://oddballmagazine.com/poem-by-john-greiner-2/

Poem by John Greiner - oddball magazine

Artwork by Mark Blickley

oddball magazine

@mspro

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#Wirtschaftsnobelpreis|träger #JamesBuchanan:

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508

Die damals gesähten Samen gingen auf in #Reagonomics
(https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/109730219700294592) und kulminierten schließlich in #CitizensUnitedVsFEC, den #Trump-Präsidentschaften, sowie der jahrzehntelang geplanten Übernahme des Obersten Gerichtshofs der #USA. Damals wurde die finale(?) Verwandlung des #AmericanExperiments in eine #Plutokratie (du klassifizierst das anders) zementiert (b. a. w.):

https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/110856116616631495

Also,

> ... what these platforms aspire to is their own demise.. It’s what Trump aspires to, to be in a world in which no one can tell him no and in which every bad idea that kind of materializes in the vacant spaces in his head becomes a policy. And so, you know, enshittification — enpoopification is the collapse of discipline. And America’s ruling class has managed to neutralize all the discipline that it ever faced. Their weirdest, worst ideas are the ones that we’re all stuck with.
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/10/10/cory_doctorow
#CoreyDoctorow explains #JamesBuchanan economy
“Enshittification”: Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It

Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as companies seek to maximize profit at the expense of their users, and it has since become shorthand for describing a pervasive sense of dropping standards across various aspects of modern life. Enshittification is “the collapse of discipline,” says Doctorow. “America’s ruling class has managed to neutralize all the discipline that it ever faced. Their weirdest, worst ideas are the ones that we’re all stuck with.” Doctorow also elaborates on a point he makes in his book: “Donald Trump’s election represents the ultimate triumph of enshittification in the political realm.”

Democracy Now!

@MAJ1

👍
Good riddance to bad rubbish.

Nowadays, any #neoliberal acolyte--in particular, if their native language is English--is most likely linked to what #EdwardLuttwak called #Turbocapitalism, which I think aptly describes the policies #JamesBuchanan's #VirginiaSchool propagates (calling it differently, though) and #Trumpism. (See my posts with the hashtag #Buchanan.)

@mina

@mina

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#JamesBuchanan

(1/n)

You are quite right in your assesment, Mina, though you focus on the 1 of 3 #neoliberal
strands that is the pillar of #Reagonomics and #Trumpism, #Buchanan's #VirginiaSchool:

"...unlike even the most property-friendly founders #AlexanderHamilton and #JamesMadison, 👉#Buchanan wanted a private governing elite of corporate power that was wholly released from public accountability.👈" 1)

@number6
@fosstodon.org

1)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598606864037745

#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan

(2/2)

..."...the Virginia school, as Buchanan’s brand of economic and political thinking is known, is a kind of cousin to the better-known, market-oriented #Chicago and #AustrianSchool|s — proponents of all three were members of the #MontPelerinSociety, 👉an international #neoliberal organization which included #MiltonFriedman and #FriedrichHayek." 👈

//

https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america

@mina @number6

Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Institute for New Economic Thinking

#USpol #UShistory #Politics

"THE ‘REVOLT OF THE RICH’: HOW THE 1970S RESHAPED AMERICA’S ECONOMIC DIVIDE"

(2/n)

...👉besy summary of the US's 🇺🇸 political economy with a focus on the #AmericanRight that I've read so far.👈

I could only find fault at 3 things:

1) Why is there no mention of the major role of #NobelLaureate #JamesBuchanan? 1)

2) Why does...

1)
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598602729129143

@GhostOnTheHalfShell @Jeramee @GreenFire @mina @SnowshadowII @bookwyrm @bookstodon

> The archive of the man who had sought to stay under the radar had been left totally unsorted and unguarded. The historian plunged in, and she read through boxes and drawers full of papers that included personal correspondence between Buchanan and billionaire industrialist Charles Koch. That’s when she had an amazing realization: here was the intellectual linchpin of a stealth revolution currently in progress.
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
#uspol #NancyMacLean #JamesBuchanan #KochBrothers
Meet the Hidden Architect Behind America's Racist Economics

Nobel laureate James Buchanan is the intellectual linchpin of the Koch-funded attack on democratic institutions, argues Duke historian Nancy MacLean

Institute for New Economic Thinking