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Republicans Run The Machine When It's Their Turn, And Then Hand The Wheel Over To Democrats When The Public Has Had Enough.

Promises To Get Beyond Partisanship Are The Most Perfunctory Sort Of Campaign Rhetoric, Almost As Empty As The Partisanship Itself.

Markets Are Interested In Profits And Profits Only; Service, Quality, And General Affluence Are Different Functions Altogether. The Universal, Democratic Prosperity That Americans Now Look Back To With Such Nostalgia Was Achieved Only By A Colossal Reigning In Of Markets, By The Gargantuan Effort Of Mass, Popular Organizations Like Labor Unions And Of The People Themselves, Working Through A Series Of Democratically Elected Governments Not Daunted By The Myths Of The Market.

As You Watch The World Crumble, Try Taking Your Armageddon With This Sprinkling Of Irony: Over The Last Three Decades, Business Has Got Virtually Everything It Wanted, And Its Doomsday Scenario From The 1970s Has Come True Because Of It.

When The Entertainers Of The Right Aren’t Declaring Their Disgust With President Obama For Groveling Before Foreign Potentates, They’re Pretending To Fear Him As A Left-wing Thug, An Exemplar Of What They Call “the Chicago Way.”