[ExI] The reassurances of Fascism aka Progressive Corporatism

[Dagon Gmail]

I would almost label this "the europanization" or "sanitization" of half
deranged "drooling mad dog" US markets. I'd also say it's too little and
too late.

The system is salvageable without an intentional period of "brazilisation",
including sprawling favella's and repressive black clad SWAT crackdowns.



On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 3:59 PM, BillK <pharos at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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
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