How the Reagan Revolution Succeeded: Strangling Government in a Bathtub and Destroying Public Services

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This is one of the best big picture assessments I have ever seen on this vital subject; thank you Mark Karlin! Under the guise of "small government" the corporatists and thier owners have managed the greatest re-distribution of wealth upward ever witnessed. Privatization is a bog part of it, but the theology does indeed stem from "drowning government." Really it is drowning the Comonweal and using the government and media as pimps to turn the people of this country into indentured contibutors for the corporatists and super-rich. Yet until we have public campaign financing, I fear that the only change to this tragedy that is our modern system in the USA is going to be for worse.    Unless some real populists can get their messages across using the web and show the hypocrisy of the governing class.

Great article!  It concisely summarizes the plot by the wealthy to steal the public's resources for themselves, aided by the two corporate-funded parties.

Despite a few remaining liberals in the Democratic Party, they've been willing partners in this plot.  Democrats who don't play along with the corporations get their funding cut off.

It's not going to change while people continue voting for this other corporate-funded party.  The Green Party doesn't accept any corporate money, and has been calling for taxing the rich: http://www.newstatesman.com/environment/2010/04/lucas-caroline-green-labour

You won't see this demand from either of the two corporate parties.  Only a few percentage points are needed to show the Democrats the consequences of them selling us out to the wealthy.  Vote Green!

Good article and so true.  For someone who has spent so much of the last 15 years in third-world, resource-rich countries, what is happening here is frightening.  Third world countries invariably have an upper class made up of the corrupt and the well-connected, who control virtually everything, while the majority of the people in the country are impoverished.  Nigeria has 70% poverty rate, based on UN standards in which poverty is defined as per capita income of less than $2 per day.  It's also the world's sixth largest oil exporter.  There is no excuse for the poverty.

India has overtaken sub-Saharan Africa in both percentage and absolute numbers of people living below the poverty line, and the numbers keep growing.  At the same time, India has produced more billionaires than any country other than the US.
The forces that cause poverty in the under-developed world are at work here; lack of job-creating industrial development, rapid migration of populations to the cities, lack of environmental stewardship leading to loss of farming and fishing opportunities, lack of healthcare, lack of affordable housing, and corporatization of agriculture.  There are many more factors, but let's not forget the affects of apocalyptic religion, which is such a powerful tool to distract the victims and keep them believing that the ruling class is looking out for them.

We're on the same trajectory, and it's by design. Those who fund the Republican party believe that a small ruling class and huge underclass is the right model for prosperity (their own). 

Have you read the comments in Stephen Crockett's post? You are being asked to sponsor a discussion as to making changes in our corrupted political structure.

And it's "reign", not "rein" of America's empire. We seek to "rein" in the "reign" of corporocratic terrorism.

While America slept, aristocracy crept in and wrapped its tentacles around democracy's heart and soul.  People laughed when Rep. Dennis Kucinich cried, "Wake up, America!  Wake up, America!  Wake up America!"  He is tolerated because his enthusiasm appears just a bit off, and so the "normal" people ignore him, yet he is among the few who keep fighting for democracy.  Rep. John Conyers is another.  He fought for universal health care throughout the Bush II administration, but when it came time to legislate; his bill was passed over for the current behemoth crafted by lobbyists.

We are well and truly screwed, people, by our corporate overlords.  What's theirs is their and what's ours is theirs, too.  Nothing is safe from their rapacious grasp.

The Pubicans have succeeded beyond their wildest dreams.  They've reaganized guvmint down small enough till they can drown it in a small Gulf of BP oil.

During his reign, it became fashionable for the MSM to fondly refer to Bonzo as the Teflon Prez.  And it was a MSM created propaganda campaign because it was during the Bonzo regime that the MSM began covering up and refusing to divulge any negative facts and observations about the dangerous dodderiing old corporate welfare monger and war monger.

Reagan was a popular president and many so-called Democrats crossed over and voted for him. One might say that the middle-class is getting precisely what they voted for.......and what they deserve. Unfortunately, the younger members of our society are disproportionately paying the price for the foolishness and ignorance of their parents.

I recall when Reagan was first elected being horrified at what was happening.   Nothing that has happened since has given me any reason to think that was not, as it appeared, a portent of disaster for this nation.