if you think capitalism can be fixed - proper adjustments to alleviate its horrors -- it is a liberal.
At 06:02 PM 12/30/2011, nathan tankus wrote:
>"Yves Smith is part of the liberal intelligentsia which is very angry
>with Obama and the Democrats for their numerous concessions to the
>Republican right and failure to aggressively tackle the housing and
>financial crises"
>
>I don't think this is accurate. First she regularly links and post
>articles from her "favorite curmudgeon", Thomas Ferguson. He is the
>developer of a political theory called "The investment theory of party
>competition". It describes how "business elites, not voters, play the
>leading part in political systems". That hardly sounds like someone
>who is simply "very angry with Obama and the Democrats" and more like
>someone who recognizes the deep corruption in our political and
>economic system. I follow her blog regularly and this is the general
>sense one takes away from her blog on a daily basis
>
>Can someone please define what this word liberal means? i still feel
>like it's being used as a catch all for non-radical lefties.
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>-Nathan Tankus
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