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A Fake Poem about the Life of James Buchanan
John Greiner
#Poetry #JohnGreiner #FakePoem #JamesBuchanan #ArthurRimbaud #Batman #ScoobyDoo #Orpheus
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴4/
Wirtschaftsbobelpreisträger #JamesBuchanan:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508
Die damals gesägten 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,
bsmall2> ... 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
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.”
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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.)
#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#JamesBuchanan
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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
#Economics
#Neoliberalism
#DemocracyInChains
#JamesBuchanan
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..."...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." 👈
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"THE ‘REVOLT OF THE RICH’: HOW THE 1970S RESHAPED AMERICA’S ECONOMIC DIVIDE"
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...👉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
bsmall2> 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
https://www.ineteconomics.org/perspectives/blog/meet-the-economist-behind-the-one-percents-stealth-takeover-of-america
#uspol #NancyMacLean #JamesBuchanan #KochBrothers
bs2🧵
> Could it be that this relatively obscure economist’s distinctive thought was being put forcefully into action in real time?
> MacLean could not gain access to Buchanan’s papers to test her hypothesis until after his death in January 2013.
@bsmall2
#NancyMacLean on #JamesBuchanan
> Could it be that this relatively obscure economist’s distinctive thought was being put forcefully into action in real time?
> MacLean could not gain access to Buchanan’s papers to test her hypothesis until after his death in January 2013.
@bsmall2
#NancyMacLean on #JamesBuchanan
True.
What I meant to say is that this is no clash of ideas about "what is best for the country" anymore, as between rivaling political parties, nor even an ideological "culture war." The #TrumpCoup is a hostile government takeover, planned decades ago and executed step by step:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/112598555451884508
While the economic-theory foundation was masterminded by #JamesBuchanan, the legal strategist was the (later on) SCOTUS Justice #LewisPowell:
https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/113240354636843089
@TonyStark