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The complete collapse of the financial markets would not have been good for anyone. Why the perpetrators are not in jail is what on my opinion is the true betr

The complete collapse of the financial markets would not have been good for anyone. Why the perpetrators are not in jail is what on my opinion is the true betrayal of the common person. I strongly believe the rise of the alt/far right is a direct byproduct of the complete disintegration of trust in the established political class. All over the world atypical politicians rose in popularity, even when they weren’t populist right wingers.

MrMan 6y ago
I think it is due to effective marketing techniques employed by big money interests who benefit from mass acceptance of libertarian narratives, and those like the social media who benefit from volatility / uncertainty in the information network.
- fuzzfactor 6y ago
  >big money interests who benefit from mass acceptance of libertarian narratives I would say it's every interest who benefits from mass acceptance of completely stupid & misguided narratives from almost all Democrats & Republicans. Libertarians, especially non-Party members, are the least of my worries. Besides the fact that what now passes for leadership ability can not even rise high enough to polish the shoes of Dwight Eisenhower or JFK and they weren't good enough either compared to the Founding Fathers. Corporations worldwide have modeled themselves on this American trend of precipitiously declining competence at or near the top, plenty of money can always be made by Bozos after true leaders have built the money-making machines. By the time Reagan & Clinton came along it was far too late. Clinton knew it so well that's why one of his earliest (naturally unfulfilled) campaign promises in 1991 was to give every citizen $5000 if they wanted to start their own business. At the time nothing else could be seen that would allow wage-earners to escape to the prosperity their forefathers had worked for and truly earned up to that point in the 20th century.

MrMan 6y ago

I think it is due to effective marketing techniques employed by big money interests who benefit from mass acceptance of libertarian narratives, and those like the social media who benefit from volatility / uncertainty in the information network.

fuzzfactor 6y ago
>big money interests who benefit from mass acceptance of libertarian narratives I would say it's every interest who benefits from mass acceptance of completely stupid & misguided narratives from almost all Democrats & Republicans. Libertarians, especially non-Party members, are the least of my worries. Besides the fact that what now passes for leadership ability can not even rise high enough to polish the shoes of Dwight Eisenhower or JFK and they weren't good enough either compared to the Founding Fathers. Corporations worldwide have modeled themselves on this American trend of precipitiously declining competence at or near the top, plenty of money can always be made by Bozos after true leaders have built the money-making machines. By the time Reagan & Clinton came along it was far too late. Clinton knew it so well that's why one of his earliest (naturally unfulfilled) campaign promises in 1991 was to give every citizen $5000 if they wanted to start their own business. At the time nothing else could be seen that would allow wage-earners to escape to the prosperity their forefathers had worked for and truly earned up to that point in the 20th century.