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The Moral Origins of Republican Donald Trump’s Improbable Rise to Power.(ThyBlackMan.com) As if to compound the insult to American power represented by the world’s vociferous rejection of the Bush doctrine, the U.S. found itself in 2008 facing the biggest economic disaster since the great recession. The collapse was so stark, so sudden, and so unavoidable that several of America’s largest and most venerable financial institutions collapsed overnight. The recession in America led to a global recession, as liquidity dried up, debts got called in, and entire nations went bankrupt.This blow to Americans’ confidence would provide fertile ground for doubt, resentment and rebellion. It quickly became apparent that the economic status quo that existed before the Iraq War and the Great Recession was giving way to a ‘new normal.’ The country limped along in this new normal; American businesses experienced very slow economic growth amidst massive economic dislocation. The Federal Reserve used every trick at its disposal to ward off total catastrophe. It was successful in its aim, although the resulting ‘Franken-economy’ it created began to resemble a monster that moved and walked, but was somehow strangely also dead.To wit: even though employment ‘recovered,’ labor force participation dropped to a thirty year low. People came back to jobs that paid less, offered fewer benefits and demanded more of their labor. American workers were hailed by economists for their increasing productivity, although, to most workers, it just seemed like a pay cut. Never had industrial performance and the state of the labor market seemed less congruent; and this strained an unspoken assumption about the trickle-down benefits of capitalism.Read More At: http://thyblackman.com/2016/09/13/the-moral-origins-of-republican-donald-trumps-improbable-rise-to-power/comment-page-1/#comment-275564
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Tribune Media Services will stop distributing columns written by conservative commentator Armstrong Williams because he received money to promote President Bush's education programs, the company said.Meanwhile, the nation's largest African-American journalists' organization has asked other media outlets that use Williams' work to do the same.Williams confirmed Friday that he received $240,000 from the Department of Education in exchange for promoting No Child Left Behind, the centerpiece of Bush's education agenda. Williams said the payment was merely for advertising time.
Pretty good article.
"Moral origins"????About a guy who BRAGGED about bedding other mens wives? Who owns casinos and strip clubs?Right.Isaiah 5:20 at work here by those who loft up such a man as Trump.
While I pretty much entirely agree with you, to my knowledge he never owned any strip clubs. A building with his name on it - that he didn't own or control - did have a strip club. I was corrected some time back for saying the same thing you did. So I also stood corrected - but there's plenty of other ammo.
