on money (in the abstract)

[Richard Fiero]

Michael Bailey wrote:
>. . .
>In the movies about Hoffa - the one with Jack Nicholson and Danny
>DeVito, and the other one with Sly Stallone - it's particularly clear
>how unsatisfactory is the charismatic leader, stirring people up to
>conflate personal loyalty with loyalty to an ideal...
. . .

There was a fairly long spell where Big Labor balanced Big Business. 
That balance is gone as we have entered another Gilded Age. It is no 
conspiracy. It is the effective work done by the right in right-wing 
think tanks, right-wing funding of candidates in elections ranging 
from local to national and it is the work of the oligarchy. Never 
mind charisma. What charisma does an elected official have that 
purposely speaks in non-standard English to masquerade as a populist? 
Some of the right-wing work that has been done is to make sure that 
the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Communications 
Commission are commissions rather than Federal Bureaus or Agencies so 
that they can be completely captured by the industries they were 
tasked to regulate. Why is TV total crap and especially the PBS News 
Hour? Does it appear that way because I am so smart? No, it's because 
it's all complete crap and spectacle. I'm not entertained.
I am entertained by IV and the rest.