AMERICAN WAY OF LIFE

BRUCE LERRO—Like you, we think that an economy should produce real goods and services. But the kind of capitalism that has caused the crisis is not about provisioning goods and services. These days, capitalists spend most of their time making profits on stocks, bonds and derivatives, with little physical production of anything. Yet mainstream economists make no distinction between “finance” capital and profits made on production.

RAMIN MAZAHERI—I don’t think that Trump has engaged in vote fraud, but I must report that half of the US still believes that Democrats did. Mail-in balloting has unnecessarily stressed an already corruption-filled system, per Harvard. In a democracy it does not matter if perceptions of voter fraud run on partisan lines – if such perceptions are widespread they simply must be resolved satisfactorily.

Nobody has tested the integrity of US elections in recent memory. Not in even in 2000, when they rushed to install George W. Bush 37 days after the election. We later found that an unforgivable 14% of African-American votes had been questionably rejected in they key state of Florida.

LEE CAMP—Late-stage capitalism gives us fraud & misery like when Wisconsin offered mega-corporation Foxconn billions in tax breaks to pretend they’d bring jobs to the state.

CALEB MAUPIN—Some free market conservatives and libertarians argue that even Nixon’s 1973 reforms went too far. Sue Lowden, a conservative candidate for Congress in Nevada argued that the insurance companies created by the state were unnecessary, because prior to that Americans were free to barter with their physicians. She said “You know, before we all started having health care, in the olden days, our grandparents, they would bring a chicken to the doctor. They would say I’ll paint your house…. In the old days that’s what people would do to get healthcare with their doctors. Doctors are very sympathetic people. I’m not backing down from that system.”

YASH LEVINE—The fake Kremlin connection that New Knowledge foisted on Moore was picked by major news outlets and became a big media scandal. Suddenly, Moore wasn’t just a creepy right-winger but an asset of Russian intelligence! It was being covered by journalists from places like Mother Jones, Bloomberg, and the New York Post so it had to be true. Ironically, even Russiagate disinfo experts who are constantly on the hunt for evil Kremlin active measures campaigns fell for this fake news op — that includes neocon activist Sarah Kendzior.