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Robert Reich is the sort of economist who believes that no transaction must be allowed without the dead hand of the state coercing buyer, seller or both. Perhaps a schoolyard bully in his youth or the boogeyman left him psychologically unable to imagine free will, critical thinking and mutual benefit.
He has Small Man Syndrome.
The small man has lost his tiny socialist mind.
Don’t know about “SMS”, certainly Idiot Syndrome.
Banty Rooster complex is a little more colourful a description.
The more precise definition is fascist, not economist.
Somehow I must have everything bassackwards. How does an uncontrolled internet become a tool of tyrants and dictators?
I guess the actual truth is so horrible that it is better not to know it according to this clown. As Rumsfeld said, there are known knowns, and unknown knowns, but its the unknown unknowns that we need to worry about.
Robert Reich, Slick Willy’s Secretary of Labour….. yeah, like I’m going to believe him….
B.S. The goal of every dictator, strongman and demagogue is to control things……. i.e. limits on free speech, internet censorship and a bought and paid for media (with soon to be “licensed reporters”)
Yep. Reich is guilty of leftist inverted-speak. The man is an unapologetic communist
Robert (Third) Reich?
Robert Reich is small but perfectly formed …So there.
just like a wart!
Q: What’s the opposite of a fascist?
Many would answer “socialist”, but they would be wrong. Fascists and socialists are kissing cousins. They both believe in the supremacy of the state over the individual. It’s just that one’s a nationalist and the other an internationalist.
No, the correct answer is “libertarian” or “classic liberal”.
KM, i disagree with some of your corona stuff, but you are bang on, the political spectrum is not linear, but circular. Bend left and right together to form the circle and communists and facists end up next to each other diametrically opposed to classical liberals. What shocks me is the perversion of “liberal” to the point where it has crossed over to completely to oppose it’s former self.
Peter, I think part of the confusion is between ideology and technique. Both “left” and “right” governments use totalitarian techniques, such as secret police, forbidding dissent, mob violence, etc.But the ideological spectrum is between socialist and libertarian.
My attempt to clarify:
Fascism is on the right side of the left wing of a partial, truncated ideological spectrum covering collectivism only. Both are on the left of the full spectrum which spans collectivism to individualism.
I respectfully disagree. The spectrum is between freedom and coercion. Totalitarians left and right coerce, when you are being coerced, the ideological underpinnings are as relevant as the number of angels who can dance on the head of a pin. Do this “or else”. Does it matter why at that point?
On the far right stand the American founding fathers. On the far left lay a hundred million dead people.
Is Bob on acid?
wait until both President Donald J. Trump, AND Alex Jones return…
Commie dwarf.
And who’s this asshole with a pulpit..?
ah yes, Robert Reich – Another ancient well past his best before date.
But Hey…it’s “FREE SPEECH” now ain’t it.?
Have at er Elon…!! Smart move not getting on the brd.
Now free to buy as much stock as he feels like….
He must be working hard to sabotage and discredit the narrative of his paymasters. I don’t see how else he could produce such a jarring paragraph.
Imagine a world where a sitting president has free access to the marketplace of ideas.
To liberals and progressives that is abhorrent.
“the dream of every strongman, dictator and demagogue”, except all of them.
Idiot.
Ironically, Libertarians are the bogeyman of most of western liberalism and even more so now as the neo-Marxists take over.
I’ve even read it here on SDA several times and at the NP. “They’re a bunch of nuts.” Or words to that effect.
I’ll be renewing my membership this month because anything I can do to upset the pole-smokers of big government, I will do.
Buddy, yes, libertarianism has often been smeared by ignoramuses here at SDA. Even the estimable Kathy Shaidle (RIP) had done this here. It is often mistakenly thought of as licensiousness.
The same Robert Reich who worked for Bill Clinton, a small man of stature and integrity
You couldn’t locate a dumber comment if you tried. Total freedom of speech? Yeah that’s a dictator’s dream.
I didn’t know you could purposely combine words in such a way to make the reader feel dumber for having read them. Can’t imagine how stupid the hyper-educated Reich is in person.
Liberals, like this stupid midget, belong to freak shows. There they can paint their mugs black, this little bastard can show his micro penis, the others can menstruate or cross dress.
If you took Robert Reich and David Frum and stuck them together you would have two piles of shit stuck together.
LOL!
Is this like Larry Elder is the “Blackest White Supremist” logic?
How can you tell a Liberal?
Well of course you can’t,you can’t tell a Liberal anything..Cause they know all..
Just as this twit is so twisted that censorship is free speech..
Evil is good.
And He only advises us for our own good..cause he knows we are all too stupid to understand the world like he does..
Our new country had better include “Banishment” in its constitution.
I would pay good money to watch,via overhead drone camera,as these know it alls demonstrate their superior knowledge and survival skills…On Some Arctic Island.
Living what they preach for us.
“These people are stupid.” – Donald J. Trump
To be a leftists, one must master doublethink.
Giving due deference to the fact that Reich is a midget (mentally and physically), he ought to know that “libertarian” and “dictator” are mutually exclusive. “Libertarian dictator” is an oxymoron.
Oh sure, dictators and free speech go hand in hand. You allow people to just say whatever they want and the next thing you know they’ll be clamoring for some shithead to step up and take their freedoms away – except for free speech, presumably.
The problem with this little feller and other lefties is that they genuinely believe the lies they slander the right with, while thinking of themselves as infallible. They will never own up to a mistake and that makes them morally suspect.
It sort of makes sense when we consider Reich is describing himself and his ilk, he’s just oblivious to the obvious irony of his statement, being a nasty narcissist, aka a DeMarxists, who like them has been reduced by collectivist catastrophe to projecting his “worst instincts.”
Much like our boy blunder’s prejudiced view of truckers and convoy supporters as racists and misogynists; of course describing himself.