I said earlier that financialized America is like the specter of a Communist America they used to warn us about. Our economic rightists also remind me of the Soviet party leaders and propagandists who publicly insisted till the end, despite all the miserable realities of their society, that Communism would presently work out just fine for the masses. And given how the cynical leaders of our own ruling party have felt obliged for several years to make excuses for the former Soviet intelligence officer who now runs Russia, the irony is extreme.
