{"id":4523,"date":"2008-09-18T20:33:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T03:33:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=4523"},"modified":"2008-09-18T20:33:42","modified_gmt":"2008-09-19T03:33:42","slug":"nice-going-richard-nixon-gave-us-wage-and-price-controls-george-herbert-walker-bush-brought-us-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-and-george-walker-bush-has-unleashed-unrepentant-fascism-upon-ameri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/4523\/nice-going-richard-nixon-gave-us-wage-and-price-controls-george-herbert-walker-bush-brought-us-the-americans-with-disabilities-act-and-george-walker-bush-has-unleashed-unrepentant-fascism-upon-ameri\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice going: Richard Nixon gave us wage and price controls, George Herbert Walker Bush brought us the Americans with Disabilities Act and George Walker Bush has unleashed unrepentant Fascism upon America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Matthew Yglesias:<\/a><\/p>\n

Everyone in the policy community seems semi-paralyzed by the sheer scale of recent news and the volume of demands for basic explanations of what, exactly, is happening. But looking a bit past all that, isn’t there an enormous progressive opportunity here?<\/p>\n

In November, there’s going to be an election. And in January, there’ll be a new President. And in the interim, progressive groups will probably come up with a lot of “ten ways to make everything awesome” proposals. And it’ll take 41 conservative senators to filibuster them all, and so they’ll all be filibustered. But if the government directly controls major financial institutions, that would give the new administration extraordinary<\/em> leverage over the national economy. Suppose the new CEO of AIG decided he didn’t want to insure assets of companies whose executives make unseemly multiples of the national median income? There are all kinds of crazy things you could do. And of course not all of them would be good ideas. But some of them would! And the smart folks on our side need to be figuring out which ones they are. It seems doubtful to me that a progressive administration would ever be able to get away with this much nationalizing of everything, but what’s done is done and I think it creates a real opportunity for “socially conscious insurance underwriting” or whatever you care to call it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Matthew Yglesias: Everyone in the policy community seems semi-paralyzed by the sheer scale of recent news and the volume of demands for basic explanations of what, exactly, is happening. But looking a bit past all that, isn’t there an enormous progressive opportunity here? In November, there’s going to be an election. And in January, there’ll […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4523","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-group-therapy","8":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":17451,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/17451\/overnight-news-since-mostly-peaceful-means-violent-does-fundamentally-fair-mean-george-bush-and-the-deep-state-agree-the-election-was-rigged\/","url_meta":{"origin":4523,"position":0},"title":"Overnight News: Since \u201cmostly peaceful\u201d means violent, does \u201cfundamentally fair\u201d mean George Bush and the Deep State agree the election was\u00a0rigged?","author":"Greg Swann","date":"November 9, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the week we find out if we are a nation of laws and not of thugs. 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