He is quite right, but virtually no one reads or understands his rants, and of course I have my axes to grind against the discipline which has given us this compartmentalized economics-think course to follow.
'A harsher, more unequal, less democratic society'
turns out to be what unfettered laissez faire policies,
only made feasible by a flawed, and intentionally weak, federal system,
inevitably appear to end in.
The average American infers,
from the fact that the existing federal-states system has not
helped them much lately,
and has been painted as hurting them,
(which by the way it has),
that therefore it must be true,
what state and federal politicians have been telling them,
that any government is bad.
Thus, a popular mandate exists for state and federal politicians,
who now nevertheless owe their political power mainly
to large corporate and foreign interests,
not to average conservative, perhaps populist, Americans,
(but they cannot admit this openly),
to dismantle government programs
(not of course their particular political posts themselves)
wherever they find them.
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