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Re: Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult

By: Cactus Flower in ALEA | Recommend this post (0)
Tue, 06 Sep 11 6:36 AM | 47 view(s)
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If I have things correctly, the Republican economic argument is now entirely perverse.

The Republicans spend government money lavishly when the economy is strong (they call this supply side economics) and encourage austerity measures when the economy is weak. The former helps create bubbles, which have a habit of bursting. The latter helps mire us within liquidity traps once the bubble bursts.

Macroeconomics requires the exact opposite course for the government: save in times of plenty, spend in times of misery.

It's quite weird that anyone would think anything else makes sense. But here we are, and a bunch of Republican rubes (apologies to csl) who presumably believe what they are saying are seeking election to the presidency.


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Re: Goodbye to All That: Reflections of a GOP Operative Who Left the Cult
By: Cactus Flower in ALEA
Tue, 06 Sep 11 5:27 AM 		Msg. 05778 of 54959

Having this last ten days had an email discussion with a fundamentalist Christian "biologist" about evolution, I can assure you the problems run very, very deep. There's a large chunk of the electorate that believes in truths which have no bearing in reality. Yet they learn their propaganda well, lay their traps carefully, expect to get away with things that they shouldn't as a result of their "specialist knowledge". Unfortunately this one picked the wrong person with whom to argue as I am aware of the devices they employ, but I could see the process in action first-hand and it was quite impressive - I imagine they will usually win such debates and folks will be left thinking that the evolutionary hypothesis is very weak. What is particularly disarming is how very nice such people actually are, in spite of being woefully informed!

It's an odd combination: anti-science; pro-wealth protection; fundamentalist; anti-government; anti-welfare; pro-war.

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