Rascal
El Presidente
Don't you ever wonder who funds these mysterious think tanks?
They were a planned response to the post WW2 social consensus. At that time a Labour party with Socialist ideals had introduced concepts into society such as the NHS, nationalisation, social housing; all of which were constraints on capitalism, so capitalism had to fight back and did so under the guidance of the Frankfurt and Chicago schools of economic thought. Hayek became their guru along with Friedman and they railed against Keynesian economic theory.
What you have to take into account is the fear of the USSR which manifested itself in Macarthyism in the USA with red under the bed scare stories. They idealised that for the west to prosper it had to be counter to the USSR not only ideologically but economically too and that meant the promotion of laissez faire and the eradication of the social consensus. The think tanks I mentioned were in the vanguard of the fight for capitalism over socialism and the left never really had an answer to the onslaught simply because it didn't have the capital to counter wealthy think tanks that were founded and financed by wealthy capitalists. Even now there are a handful of left wing think tanks whilst the right wings tanks have proliferated. One only has to watch the news or QT and see the amount of media coverage these right wing think tanks get, they are fucking everywhere promoting capitalism and some not all going further and promoting libertarian capitalism.
This is no conspiracy theory, its a matter of fact and public record that this happens. You may think its harmless but ask yourself what do wealthy individuals get out of funding these think tanks that promulgate right wing economic thinking.
I believe all these think tanks are anti democratic, they don't serve the people they serve individuals. Does anyone know a member of the Taxpayers Alliance? the TPA are against almost all state spending, they are behind campaigns to cut public spending citing with authority that many take for granted that taxpayers money is being wasted. Who funds them to do this campaigning though and who the fuck are they? A lot of stuff that they have provided disinformation about is now mainstream and is accepted by the public as being fact. An instance is the constant attacks on waste in the NHS, usually combined with an attack on there being too many managers and not enough nurses. This is all done so that trust in the NHS diminishes and gets to a point where it can hawked off to private institutions for the personal gain of the TPAs wealthy funders. Capitalists hate to see a money making opportunity go to waste and the NHS is a gold mine for capitalists, so they use their think tanks to undermine trust and then when the public lose faith in the institution they buy it and make a profit. They have done the same with the BBC, constantly propagandising it and affecting public trust because their is profit to be made.
If you want to believe it is a conspiracy theory then so be it, all I can do is try and explain the motives behind them. I could go much further than I have but its pretty pointless on here as nobody is really that interested in capitalist subversion of our democracy simply because the capitalist subversion of our democracy has been so successful it is dismissed as a conspiracy theory.
