tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976758.post6042367568087539010..comments2024-03-28T16:08:56.531-05:00Comments on Library Chronicles: Behind the Bloomberg curveUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976758.post-77542840907225878262013-09-11T16:37:57.536-05:002013-09-11T16:37:57.536-05:00I'd agree with all of that. But if we aren...I'd agree with all of that. But if we aren't able to observe and confront these greater systems as they manifest at the local level, then where will we ever get a handle on them? Maybe nowhere. But that's why I even bother anyway.jeffreynoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976758.post-54573622779063526732013-09-11T14:28:15.252-05:002013-09-11T14:28:15.252-05:00In the comments, someone makes my point way more s...In the comments, someone makes my point way more succinctly:<br /><br />"Adopting a few benign positions on social issues as cover so you can solidify the plutocratic takeover of the American and global financial systems is not 'liberal'."<br /><br /><br /><br />That's correct, except it's not just Bloomberg and guys like him. It's the entire American "left." It's what they believe in. It's Clintonism, too. It's what American "liberals" actually are.Bradleyhttp://ubiquitousamericana.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5976758.post-8151008252903317302013-09-11T14:18:22.343-05:002013-09-11T14:18:22.343-05:00I think the only place you and I differ is you see...I think the only place you and I differ is you seem to actually have a little hope that there's something else anyone--from leaders to citizens--are interested in. Which makes me, somehow, more cynical than you, probably.<br /><br /><br />I think the playing field has been set far above the level of any city. I think any talk of moving away from what this post refers to as "Bloombergism" is about as meaningful as Obama's "tax increases" on the rich--which, of course, rolled back, what, the fifth or sixth cut down the line on high income earners? We didn't exactly go after the Reagan cuts, did we? We stayed firmly in the neoliberal playing field.<br /><br /><br />Digressing.<br /><br /><br />Point is I think the globalist/neoliberal system is absolutely entrenched nationwide for the foreseeable future because global policymakers at levels incredibly far beyond the influence level of a Mitch Landrieu have adopted it as a consensus more stable and established than even the New Deal consensus after WW2.<br /><br /><br />2008 barely slowed 'em down.Bradleyhttp://ubiquitousamericana.tumblr.com/noreply@blogger.com