[ExI] The reassurances of Fascism aka Progressive Corporatism

[BillK]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 1:35 PM, Damien Broderick  wrote:
>
> NYT conservative commentator David Brooks sez:
>
> If you wanted to devise a name for this approach, you might pick the phrase
> economist Arnold Kling has used: Progressive Corporatism. We're not entering
> a phase in which government stands back and lets the chips fall. We're not
> entering an era when the government pounds the powerful on behalf of the
> people. We're entering an era of the educated establishment, in which
> government acts to create a stable ­ and often oligarchic ­ framework for
> capitalist endeavor.
>
> After a liberal era and then a conservative era, we're getting a glimpse of
> what comes next.
>


Fascism can be difficult to identify if you haven't met it before and
don't know much about world history.

And in times of crisis, it seems an attractive way to sort the mess out.

Looks like bad times ahead.


BillK