Anonymous wrote:The most disturbing thing about this interview was finding out that Breitbart was and is being run from Steve Bannon's house. How is that not a conflict?

So? CNN is filmed in valeri jarretts sockndrawer; I don't see the issue.

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Anonymous wrote:If Bannon wants to go back to the economic policies of the 19th century, I suppose we will see wildcat banks issuing their own currency again to compete with the USD. Which, of course, led to a series of major recessions and economic turmoil in the latter half of the 19th century.

I guess he also forgot about robber barrons. Maybe his real plan is to create another time period where robber barrons reign supreme and factory workers had zero protections. He is from Wall St after all.

I think it's pretty obvious that this Administration is trying to recreate a version of that period. Fewer financial regulations. No real interest in trust-busting or protecting American consumers. And dissolving the few remaining worker protectoins.

The Republican party has been trying to roll back a century of progress for the last several decades. The current President has put that effort on steroids.

Bannon supports turning google and Facebook into public utilities

Cite? And I guess it matters what his view of public utilities is, given he also doesn't support the notion of an administrative state.

Anonymous wrote:If Bannon wants to go back to the economic policies of the 19th century, I suppose we will see wildcat banks issuing their own currency again to compete with the USD. Which, of course, led to a series of major recessions and economic turmoil in the latter half of the 19th century.

Sounds like Bitcoin...

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Anonymous wrote:If Bannon wants to go back to the economic policies of the 19th century, I suppose we will see wildcat banks issuing their own currency again to compete with the USD. Which, of course, led to a series of major recessions and economic turmoil in the latter half of the 19th century.

I guess he also forgot about robber barrons. Maybe his real plan is to create another time period where robber barrons reign supreme and factory workers had zero protections. He is from Wall St after all.

I think it's pretty obvious that this Administration is trying to recreate a version of that period. Fewer financial regulations. No real interest in trust-busting or protecting American consumers. And dissolving the few remaining worker protectoins.

The Republican party has been trying to roll back a century of progress for the last several decades. The current President has put that effort on steroids.

Bannon supports turning google and Facebook into public utilities

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Anonymous wrote:If Bannon wants to go back to the economic policies of the 19th century, I suppose we will see wildcat banks issuing their own currency again to compete with the USD. Which, of course, led to a series of major recessions and economic turmoil in the latter half of the 19th century.

I guess he also forgot about robber barrons. Maybe his real plan is to create another time period where robber barrons reign supreme and factory workers had zero protections. He is from Wall St after all.

I think it's pretty obvious that this Administration is trying to recreate a version of that period. Fewer financial regulations. No real interest in trust-busting or protecting American consumers. And dissolving the few remaining worker protectoins.

The Republican party has been trying to roll back a century of progress for the last several decades. The current President has put that effort on steroids.

Anonymous wrote:If Bannon wants to go back to the economic policies of the 19th century, I suppose we will see wildcat banks issuing their own currency again to compete with the USD. Which, of course, led to a series of major recessions and economic turmoil in the latter half of the 19th century.

I guess he also forgot about robber barrons. Maybe his real plan is to create another time period where robber barrons reign supreme and factory workers had zero protections. He is from Wall St after all.

If Bannon wants to go back to the economic policies of the 19th century, I suppose we will see wildcat banks issuing their own currency again to compete with the USD. Which, of course, led to a series of major recessions and economic turmoil in the latter half of the 19th century.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought I'd round out this thread with Jamelle Bouie's piece on Bannon's unearned reputation as an intellectual:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/09/steve_bannon_s_reputation_as_an_intellectual_and_strategic_genius_is_unearned.html

Bouie has been killing it in the last year or so...too bad the simple topic of his writings, race, means that no one who doesn't share his leanings will even be willing to read his work.

Bannon seems smart to stupid people.

As the article stated, it's the narrow thinking that makes him not really all that smart. His beliefs that going back to the way things were in the 19th century (protectionist policies) is the way to MAGA shows his lack of big picture thinking. The world was in a vastly different place back then, including the US. He wants the US to implement old policies in a modern world. That won't work.

It's like when Romney said we needed more tanks. Sure, if we were living in 1940's fighting in WWII we might. But not in the 21st century. No general would tell you that we need more tanks.

Anonymous wrote:I thought I'd round out this thread with Jamelle Bouie's piece on Bannon's unearned reputation as an intellectual:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/09/steve_bannon_s_reputation_as_an_intellectual_and_strategic_genius_is_unearned.html

Bouie has been killing it in the last year or so...too bad the simple topic of his writings, race, means that no one who doesn't share his leanings will even be willing to read his work.

Bannon seems smart to stupid people.

I thought I'd round out this thread with Jamelle Bouie's piece on Bannon's unearned reputation as an intellectual:

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/09/steve_bannon_s_reputation_as_an_intellectual_and_strategic_genius_is_unearned.html

Bouie has been killing it in the last year or so...too bad the simple topic of his writings, race, means that no one who doesn't share his leanings will even be willing to read his work.