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"When the revolution is for everyone, everyone will be for the revolution"

Analysis media Media Madness Politics

NinaIllingworth November 22, 2019April 20, 2025 16 negative articles, 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, analysis, August, Bernie Blackout, Bernie Sanders, blog, Branko Marcetic, centrist, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, FiveThirtyEight, In These Times, Joe Biden, Liz Warren, manufacturing consent, Media, Media Madness, MP6, MSNBC, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, September, WaPo

Analysis: The Bernie Blackout is Very Real

In the lead up to the 2020 Democratic Party Primary race, it’s time for everyone to admit the Bernie Blackout is real and MSNBC has its thumb on the scale.

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NinaIllingworth November 21, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Bernie Sanders, blog, campaigning against Bernie, CIA Pete, corporate media, Democratic Party, Dollar Store Macron, Douglass Plan, Essays, going through the motions, JA5, liberalism, Mayo Pete, Mayor Pete is kinda racist, Media, media bias, Media Madness, MP6, muppet, neoliberalism, not authentic, Pete Buttigieg, Politics, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Social Justice, South Bend, whiteness

Link: Fear, Loathing and Mayonnaise in the 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest

A link to my most recent Media Madness essay examining the mainstream media’s obviously biased coverage in favor of new Bernie-Slayer, Pete Buttigieg.

Books Can't You Read Capitalism Quotes

NinaIllingworth November 20, 2019April 20, 2025 2008 Financial Crisis, blog, book review, Books, CA4, Can't You Read, capitalism, class warfare, Democratic Party, labor, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Politics, Quickshot Quotations, Quotes, Rendezvous with Oblivion, Thomas Frank

Books: Rendezvous with Oblivion by Thomas Frank

A book review of Thomas Frank’s Rendezvous with Oblivion and a short discussion about the wreckage of neoliberalism in modern American society.

Blog Media Madness Neoliberalism Take Downs

NinaIllingworth November 15, 2019April 15, 2025 bad ideas, Bernie Sanders, blog, Clintonism, conservative cultural views, constitutional crisis, corruption, culture war, economic justice, Essays, excuses to do racism, Fantastic Lies, GOP, how to flip red states, Jeb Lund, Matthew Yglesias, Media, Media Madness, Medicare for all, MP6, Mr Destructo, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Politics, Propaganda, pundits, Rants, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republican, rightward drift of the Democratic Party, rule of law, standards and norms, Take Downs, Triangulation, Trump, Trump impeachment, US Constitution, US Senate, Vox, Yiggy

Matthew Yglesias is a Disingenuous Bootlicker on Media Madness

Let’s just stop for a moment and marvel at what a bloodless, mendacious piece of human pig manure Mathew Yglesias is; on Media Madness.

Essays Neoliberalism Patreon Theory

NinaIllingworth November 14, 2019April 15, 2025 Affordable Care Act, Amazon, anticapitalism, austerity, Ayn Rand, Big Tech, bribery, CA4, colonialism, corporate power, corruption, debt slavery, domestic policy, Economics, Essays, extractivism, Ferguson, financialization, left wing theory, lexicon, medical insurance, Medicare for all, monopoly power, neofeudalism, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Obamacare, Offsite Writing, panopticon, Patreon, Patreon Blog, pig empire, policing for profit, private surveillance, privatization, Propaganda, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, rents, social safety nets, special economic zones, ST2, subsidies, taxation, Theory, Theory Discussion, Uber, Wall Street bailout, Walmart

Link: Theory Discussion A Working Definition of Neofeudalism – New Essay

As dystopian as neoliberal capitalism is, adding coercion and corporate recapture to the mix has created a new form of anti-labor extractivism: neofeudalism.

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NinaIllingworth November 11, 2019April 20, 2025 abolition, Amerikan Musik, Bill Barr, BLM, blog, Chicago, Donald Trump, FA1, fascism, JA5, Media Madness, militarized police, Nina Illingworth, Police, police state, police violence, Politics, Racism, Truthout, white nationalism

Analysis: Trump’s Ignored Police “Surge” Threat

Are Bill Barr and Donald Trump planning on invading Democrat-voting cities with militarized police in the lead up to the 2020 election?

Books Neoliberalism Social Justice War

NinaIllingworth November 7, 2019November 17, 2022 Allen Dulles, Books, CA4, CC3, CIA, Corporate Fascism, Corporatism, David Talbot, deep state, democratic socialism, elite rule, FA1, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, Ibram X Kendi, Imperialism, Inventing Reality, Left Wing Books, market fundamentalism, Marxism, Media, media bias, Michael Parenti, Milton Friedman, Naomi Klein, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Noam Chomsky, permanent war economy, Politics, power, Racism, racist ideas, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Reviews, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, Stamped From the Beginning, The Devil's Chessboard, the economics of racism, The Library, the propaganda model, The Shock Doctrine, Trump Doctrine, Understanding Power, war, WD7

The Library: the First Five

A look at five reasonably mainstream books from The Library that you can read to get a much better grasp on how our world actually works.

Blog Can't You Read Politics Russiagate War

NinaIllingworth November 1, 2019April 15, 2025 1st Trump impeachment, Amerikan Musik, Bircher nonsense, Birchers, blog, Can't You Read, conspiracy theory, conspiracy thinking, corporate media, Crime, Donald Trump, fascism, foreign policy, forever war, illegal, impeachable offenses, Imperialism, influence trading, Joe Biden, liberal establishment, liberal media, Mitch McConnell, MP6, Nancy Pelosi, NATO, neoliberalism, new cold war, New Forever War, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, pig empire, Politics, Propaganda, Russia, Russiagate, Russiagate made Trump stronger, spin, the GOP is a fascist party, Trump did it, Trump impeachment, Trump strong armed Ukraine, Ukraine, US Congress, US imperialism, US politics, US Senate, war

Can’t You Read: Russiagate and the 1st Trump Impeachment

An October 2019 Can’t You Read blog post about why the liberal establishment’s ongoing Russiagate conspiracy makes it harder to defeat swine emperor Trump.

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NinaIllingworth October 31, 2019November 17, 2022 American fascism, anti war, Anti-climate conspiracy, Bernie Blackout, Bernie Sanders, blog, capitalism, climate catastrophe, CNN, Democratic Party, Donald Trump, Edward Snowden, Essays, FA1, fascism, faux left, fixed, foreign policy, Gaetz Gang, GOP stunt, Greta Thunberg, Hillary Clinton, Imperialism, Joe Biden, layman history of liberalism, Liz Warren, McCarthyism, media bias against Sanders, MP6, Odds and Ends, Opinion, Patreon, Patreon Blog, Permanent Record, pig empire, Politics, polling, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Republicans are fascist sympathizers, Russiagate, social media, Squad endoresments, swing voters are an excuse, Trump impeachment, Trump is guilty, Tulsi Gabbard, Ukraine Call Scandal, war, war in Syria, Warren native status lie, Warren Technocrat, WD7, western support of terrorism

Odds and Ends: Thick Skinnys and Malcolm on the Margins

A collection of links to all of my recent Skinny social media essays and Can’t You Read blog posts previously unshared on this site.

Essays media Patreon Politics socialism

NinaIllingworth October 30, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, 2020 US Election, Bernie 2020, Bernie Blackout, Bernie is Back, Bernie Sanders, bogus polls, class war, corporate media, Democratic Party, democratic socialism, Essays, Fantastic Lies, Joe Biden, liberal media, likely voters, Liz Warren, Media, MP6, narrative, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, political media, Politics, polling, Queens Rally, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, ruling class, Socialism

Link: On Bernie Sanders, Polling and Perception – New Essay

A link to my latest essay on Patreon in which I look at the reasons Bernie Sanders is going to drastically outperform the polls in the 2020 Democratic Party nomination contest.

Neoliberalism Patreon Politics Theory

NinaIllingworth October 28, 2019April 15, 2025 2020 Democratic Party Nomination Contest, Amerikan Musik, antifascism, Bernie Sanders, Bircher nonsense, blog, Brooks Brothers Riot, CA4, class war, confronting fascism, democratic socialism, Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, fascism, history of liberalism, how liberalism works, labor class, left wing theory, liberalism, Liz Warren is a muppet, Matt Gaetz, MP6, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Offsite Writing, Patreon, Patreon Blog, PMC, political history, Political Theory, Politics, Professional Class, professional managerial class, Socialism, technocratic incrementalism, technocrats, The Skinny, Theory, Trump impeachment, US politics, why liberals lose, working class

The Skinny: a Liberal Lexicon

A collection of informal journal writing; this time we’re talking about liberalism and the American political imagination.