{"id":8836,"date":"2011-10-10T18:11:45","date_gmt":"2011-10-11T01:11:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=8836"},"modified":"2011-10-12T12:09:50","modified_gmt":"2011-10-12T19:09:50","slug":"krugman-panic-of-the-plutocrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=8836","title":{"rendered":"Krugman: &#8216;Panic of the Plutocrats&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/10\/10\/opinion\/panic-of-the-plutocrats.html\"><i>New York Times&#8217;<\/i> Paul Krugman absolutely nails<\/a> the rapidly growing fear and loathing amongst the Oligarchy as Republicans scramble to support years of corporatist cronyism and corruption over the very real grass-roots uprising of &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; protesters who&#8217;ve had enough and are now finally fighting for the general welfare of middle-class American citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This reaction tells you something important,&#8221; Krugman writes. &#8220;Namely, that the extremists threatening American values are what F.D.R. called &#8216;economic royalists,&#8217; not the people camping in Zuccotti Park.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s going on here? The answer, surely, is that Wall Street&#8217;s Masters of the Universe realize, deep down, how morally indefensible their position is,&#8221; he avers.<\/p>\n<p>The short piece is a must-read, as it pretty well sums up exactly where we are at what could be a pivotal moment in history, especially as you&#8217;re likely to see much more of the panic expressed on Fox &#8220;News&#8221; and other corporatist outlets as the popular and populist uprising continues to grow&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times&#8217; Paul Krugman absolutely nails the rapidly growing fear and loathing amongst the Oligarchy as Republicans scramble to support years of corporatist cronyism and corruption over the very real grass-roots uprising of &#8220;Occupy Wall Street&#8221; protesters who&#8217;ve had enough and are now finally fighting for the general welfare of middle-class American citizens. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,503,300],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-8836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-york-times","category-occupy-wall-street","category-republicans"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8836"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8836\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8836"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=8836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}