Thom Hartman

[Duncanpup]

https://hartmannreport.com/p/chapter-15-the-next-time-some-idiot

[dalton99a]

1. .

The only businesses Republicans actually support are gun sellers, megachurches, corrupt defense contractors, and giant monopolies. And none of those are good for average Americans, locally owned businesses, or the US economy.

[thought crime]

7. Also gambling and increasingly, crypto.

[SalviaBlue]

2. Republicans kill economies.

“All my life, the media has told us that the GOP is the “party of business.”

It may have once been true under Eisenhower when I was a very young child, but today it’s a lie — and has been so in a huge way since the neoliberal Reagan Revolution.

Republicans kill economies; Democrats rescue and build them.”

[Bernardo de La Paz]

3. The party of business can't see what business can see: good business needs healthy societies

The whole trope about "running government like a business", ... I wish it were true in the best sense: the sense that healthy long-lived prosperous businesses invest in their people. Business knows that, but not the RepubliCon party which is more interested in conning people and being Guardians Of Pedophiles.

[MineralMan]

4. HartmanN, please.

It's spelled correctly in the link. Thanks. People like their names spelled correctly.

[multigraincracker]

5. The Father of Capitalism is Adam Smith.

He wrote that book in 1776, Wealth of Nations, and it became the blue print for a market driven economy. He also stated the businesses must be regulated to prevent monopolies. That part changed with Neoliberalism and, for many, the end of it.

[multigraincracker]

6. I've been following him sence the 70s when he was in East Lansing and owned a small shop there.

Then later he wrote a book about ADHD, that I highly recommend.
I think he is also a member of DU, correct me if I'm wrong.

[Karadeniz]

8. Great read !