Lakshmi Rhone wrote: > It's so obvious that I can't believe that it's not well understood. Robert > Rubin is controlling Obama through his many disciples.
but isn't Rubin simply one spokescritter and thinker for a larger social movement, the financial-sector wing of neoliberalism, a force that preceded Rubin's resistible rise to the Treasury? Another wing is the "inside the beltway" consensus that "Social Security and Medicare are in crisis" (without any separation of those two programs). That consensus is one force behind Obama's proposed Social Security cuts. Any specific political event -- including the Debt Ceiling Mess -- involves a variety of different political-economic pressures (pushing in different directions with different strengths), so that the actual results are over-determined (as Freud or Althusser would say). Put another way, all politics is coalition politics. -- Jim Devine / "Segui il tuo corso, e lascia dir le genti." (Go your own way and let people talk.) -- Karl, paraphrasing Dante. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
