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vlyons

(10,252 posts)
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 11:16 AM Feb 2017

Bannon is basically an Ayn Rander

"Deconstructing the administrative government" translates into getting rid of the EPA, Edu, Commerce, Labor, Transportation and as many other gov cabinet departments as possible, reducing rules and guidelines in departments that are left. So that all those functions and services disappear to be available only if provided by For-Profit capitalist corporations. The Ayn Randers don't believe that there is such a thing as "the common good" or "the commons" that are paid for by taxes and administered and maintained by taxes, and available to every citizens equally. They label the common good, and the commons as some sort of socialist plot to take away our freedom to do as we please, no matter what the effect is to the common good.

Welcome to Galt's Gulch.

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JHan

(10,173 posts)
1. What it amounts to is a desire to rule from the executive..
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 11:21 AM
Feb 2017

He espouses extreme libertarian views because to rule from the executive, unobstructed, requires less bureaucratic interference.

Bannon wants to destroy the rule of law and all checks and balances in the system will be tested, especially federal courts.

njhoneybadger

(3,910 posts)
3. In some ways,but Ayn Rand hated religion,and bannon hates secularism.
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 11:44 AM
Feb 2017

Bannon wants to drain the swamp of anything that doesn't conform to his view of traditional Christianity. He wants an Authoritarian type of government.

brush

(53,871 posts)
4. He's also a fan boy of Alexander Dugin, the new Rasputin, which is why he wants to deconstruct our..
Fri Feb 24, 2017, 12:13 PM
Feb 2017

our institutions. He is of course, rushing headlong towards treason/sedition with Mango Mussolini in tow.

"All the political systems of the modern age have been the products of three distinct ideologies: the first, and oldest, is liberal democracy; the second is Marxism; and the third is fascism. The latter two have long since failed and passed out of the pages of history, and the first no longer operates as an ideology, but rather as something taken for granted. The world today finds itself on the brink of a post-political reality - one in which the values of liberalism are so deeply embedded that the average person is not aware that there is an ideology at work around him. As a result, liberalism is threatening to monopolise political discourse and drown the world in a universal sameness, destroying everything that makes the various cultures and peoples unique. According to Alexander Dugin, what is needed to break through this morass is a fourth ideology - one that will sift through the debris of the first three to look for elements that might be useful, but that remains innovative and unique in itself...."

https://www.amazon.com/Fourth-Political-Theory-Alexander-Dugin/dp/1907166653

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