Source: Center for a Stateless Society
by Eric F
“Policies that have bipartisan support in Congress, and never appear as matters for political debate, involve things that are structurally central to the functioning of the American model of capitalism. They are things that both wings of the capitalist class, represented by the two parties, agree on. Both major parties overwhelmingly agree on fundamental things like the nature of capitalist land ownership and credit, copyright maximalism, the idea that the state should massively subsidize the major input costs of corporate capitalism, and the role of the United States as global enforcer of a neoliberal economic order. On the other hand, large popular majorities are in favor of things like single-payer health insurance, that are non-starters in Congress. In any case where the majority consensus of the general public contradicts the consensus of American capital, the latter prevails.” (11/14/24)