U.S. Presidential debate

[kandrathe]

Froman was career Democratic econoimc adviser, who worked for the treasury under Rubin during the Clinton administration. He, like almost everyone else, moved back to the private sector when the administration changed. He was an early Obama supporter, and obviously a prime candidate for an economic advisory role under Obama. He converses with Podesta about cabinet appointments, making "lists" of candidates for top jobs containing... well, exactly who you'd expect them to contain, high-flying Democrats in their respective fields? That Obama bailed out the big banks, on the advice of pretty much every economist, because the whole global financial system was at stake, and letting it fail would have catastrophic economic consequences? That's "the best proof so far we liver under a Fascist system"?

I'm not saying I love the Washington revolving door, but if that's Fascism, then we've been living under Fascism consistently since the mid-18th century.

-Jester

For fun: This is almost exactly the accusation made of Alexander Hamilton during his tenure as Treasury Secretary. The more things change...

We may just be arguing about how square the peg and hole are. There is a smoking gun here of corporate/government collusion and obvious conflicts of interest. You may wave it off as a revolving door, or the necessary evil of matching the "right" person to the jobs, but certainly there need to be boundaries in choosing from the incestuous swamp rats we grow out on the East Coast between Wall Street and K Street. It's become an endless cycle of elites pandering to and enriching the elite. As much as we can look at Trumps nationalism as trending fascism, his genesis is from the fascism already institutionalized. The only difference is he's an outsider elite, pandering to the disenfranchised, and negotiating his position with the existing fascist insiders (from both parties).

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/william-as...30406.html

“A form of political behavior marked by obsessive preoccupation with community decline, humiliation or victimhood and by compensatory cults of unity, energy and purity, in which a mass-based party of committed nationalist militants, working in uneasy but effective collaboration with traditional elites, abandons democratic liberties and pursues with redemptive violence and without ethical or legal restraints goals of internal cleansing and external expansion.”

"Yes we can!" "Make America great again!" "A “New Deal” for the American people!"

I'd see it as definitive US behavior in response to the Great Depression and moving forward. Mainly evident by our need for militarism after WWII. Before GWB, it was constrained somewhat by the requirement to convince Congress to declare war. But, since the advent of unmanned war, there is less checks on unilaterally striking enemies of the US without regard to borders or restraints.