What has emerged, from what most people over here still like to characterize as a more or less free and open system of liberal, free market, post Milner Group, CFR, nation states, is something more like what one might call the Dealbook State, or, say, the Public Private Partnership Cartel State, and less like what Bobbitt and others hailed as the emergence of the Market State. One might even call the new thing the Unmarket State.
"In the climactic scene of the indispensable book and film, Primary Colors, the composite figure Libby Holden berates Jack and Susan Stanton (Bill and Hillary Clinton) for betraying the ideals they all shared when they helped nominate McGovern in 1972. We were young then, Susan replies. We didn't understand "how the world works." As Hillary's record of speaking engagements and public positions makes all too clear, she understands only too well how today's world works. One can cast one's self as a fighter for the middle class and a crusader on social issues, so long as one takes care not to offend powerful economic interests and disturb the distribution of income. I can't help but wonder whether Chait, Vennochi, Cohen, Millbank, and even Krugman also can't help but trust a system which, for whatever reason, has found a very nice place within itself for them. Yet whether that strategy can get her the nomination and the White House in 2016 depends on whether the world has passed her by." DK
Regarding my remark above, this passage is the most telling: "...One can cast one's self as a fighter for the middle class and a crusader on social issues, so long as one takes care not to offend powerful economic interests and disturb the distribution of income...." DK
One must add, "one doesn't want to offend or disturb, if possible, powerful foreign interests, agreed or de facto cartellized distributions of global markets and deals, and existing foreign alliances and other relations."
This is not the world of the small player in Smithian free trade markets.
"We were young then, Susan replies. We didn't understand "how the world works." " DK
"As Hillary's record of speaking engagements and public positions makes all too clear, she understands only too well how today's world works." DK
To Susan / Hillary's disingenuous remark, I would just point out, agreeing with Professor Kaiser directly above, that Bill Clinton had been a Rhodes Scholar before he became a politician. He also had been a student of Quigley...
Say no more. Nuf said.
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Regarding my remark above, this passage is the most telling: "...One can cast one's self as a fighter for the middle class and a crusader on social issues, so long as one takes care not to offend powerful economic interests and disturb the distribution of income...." DK
One must add, "one doesn't want to offend or disturb, if possible, powerful foreign interests, agreed or de facto cartellized distributions of global markets and deals, and existing foreign alliances and other relations."
This is not the world of the small player in Smithian free trade markets.
"We were young then, Susan replies. We didn't understand "how the world works." " DK
"As Hillary's record of speaking engagements and public positions makes all too clear, she understands only too well how today's world works." DK
To Susan / Hillary's disingenuous remark, I would just point out, agreeing with Professor Kaiser directly above, that Bill Clinton had been a Rhodes Scholar before he became a politician. He also had been a student of Quigley...
Say no more. Nuf said.
Terms search: trading American interests
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