Naomi Klein in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (The link contains links to 13 book reviews), documents how conservatives have used the shocks following crises to push their free market ecomomic policies on unwilling populances. Wikipedia describes this thus.
The introduction sketches the history of the last thirty years where economic shock doctrine has been applied throughout the world, from South America in the seventies to New Orleans after hurricane Katrina. Klein introduces two of her main themes. 1) that practitioners of the shock doctrine tend to seek a blank slate on which to create their ideal free market economies, which inevitably requires an usually violent destruction of existing economic order. 2) The similarities between economic shock doctrine and the original shock therapy – a psychiatric technique where electric shocks were applied to mentally ill patients.
Well the joke is on the conservatives. We are now in the ultimate shock, and it won't be conservatives in charge of the restructuring of the American, and the World economy.
Be careful of what you wish for, you may get it.
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