LEVIATHAN REVISITED: The People Versus the Prince of Plunder

The greatest deceit of the GOP is their faux support for regular people and small government.

“It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law”. Thomas Hobbes

“The Republican Party is not, as advertised, conservative but radically oligarchical. Programmatically it exists to advance corporate economic and political interests, and to protect and promote inequalities of opportunity and wealth …. By striking at welfare programs and unemployment benefits, blocking a national health care system, and making threatening gestures toward pension plans and social security, not only did this politics cripple social democracy, but in the process, it undermined political democracy, the one political system that depends upon those who work”. Sheldon Wolin

“The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci

“Life is now a war zone, and as such, the number of people considered disposable has grown exponentially, and this includes low-income whites, poor minorities, immigrants, the unemployed, the homeless, and a range of people who are viewed as a liability to capital and its endless predatory quest for power and profits”. Henry Giroux

“Well, in the past, the size of government was one of the more fundamental dividing lines between Right and Left. The Right was supposed to represent the small government philosophy — limited spending, low taxes. Obviously, things…