Comments by "Animal Farm" (@animalfarm7467) on "Broken Clocks: a Brief History on Why Progressives Should Support Smart Tarrifs" video.

  1. “The retraining program was just a joke”! Sorry, retraining programs are just a mechanism to create the illusion of intent; they are all jokes. You can’t tell me when Clinton removed worker’s rights, his approach to retraining was genuine. Hartmann, remember your recent interview with Nancy MacLean; remember how Nancy clearly explained the intent of the Koch brothers; she explained in earnest the real intent of these oligarchs to disable democracy, crush workers' rights and finish the transformation of the government into an entity that only works for the oligarchs. You also explained the Koch strategy implicitly when you recently read the 1980 Libertarian platform on your show. Now here are three words that will dismantle any preconceptions your viewers may have about the Clintons – Democratic Leadership Council (DLC). Thomas, do you remember the Democratic Party’s “Third Way” introduced in the 1990s. The DLC with Clinton and Gore planned to move to the center, to get into bed with Wall Street, and to accelerate the Neoliberalism we see today. But here’s the killer; guess who funded the DLC. C’mon, I’ll give you two guesses, but it should only take one. That right, the infamous Koch Brothers. And here's the clincher, Neoliberal economics is actually Austrian economics; the economic philosophy of the oligarchs and their sycophantic and well funded Libertarian movement. Austrian economics was imported to the US by the Rockefeller Foundation in the late 1930s and setup at the University of Chicago. Ongoing funding was provided by Wall Street to continue the push to implement this oligarch centric philosophy into the mainstream and here we are today. I'm sure most of you had worked that out for yourselves; this was just for those too busy to connect the dots. Yes, the Kochs were funding a program to allow Clinton to disable what remained of “progressivism” or what I would like to call the “true left”. You might think; well that was then and a lot of water has passed under the bridge; but wait there more, and it not just a set of Ginsu knives. Yes, this is the same Charles Koch who pushed people to vote for Hillary when the Kochs weren't sure of Trump’s allegiance. You can read about it on the CNN website. They had Pence bought and paid for long before he became vice president, but at the time the Kochs were unsure of Trump. Well that's all history now and I’m sure Trump, like Clinton, hasn’t failed to please the Kochs. Charles Koch has spent his money wisely. But don’t just take my word or Hartmann’s word for these events of history; do your own research before they sterilize the internet. No wonder the oligarchs want to keep this fake left-right pendulum swinging.
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  2. If you neglect the fake “left-right” paradigm and just look at the intent, it was clear to me that apart from a few scams on the public (e.g. Corporate owned Reverend Fifield and Graham prayer meetings), Eisenhower appeared to be closer to a progressive than Clinton or Obama but I take your point. At least Eisenhower had the guts to tell the people the truth about the fascist threat of the Military Industrial Complex in his farewell address. It was sad there wasn't anyone in the Government that could act on behalf of the people. Convenient or tactful; Eisenhower gave his opinion too late. I wish the historian and author Thomas Frank would reappear on the show not railroaded or constrained in what he can say. But sadly Hartmann’s narrative has drifted so far from the Frank's honest narrative, If Frank was aware of the current narrative of this show, I doubt Frank could ever be seen again.
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