Brian Strickland and the feast of wingnuts buying off our economy.

One of the concerns with a State Representative who is always trying to hide is that he fails to take public positions on the pressing issues of the day.

The local community will always take cues from their local leaders because the community wants to trust their leaders are engaged in the issues at a level most working people don't have time to delve into.  This leads to a Hayekian impasse in terms of information flows where correct and accurate knowledge is not reaching the proper channels and a breakdown of social order required for a flourishing middle class economy.

Right now economic policy on the right, to quote Jonathan Chait, is a "feast of the wingnuts":

American politics has been hijacked by a tiny coterie of right-wing economic extremists, some of them ideological zealots, others merely greedy, a few of them possibly insane. The scope of their triumph is breathtaking. Over the course of the last three decades, they have moved from the right-wing fringe to the commanding heights of the national agenda. Notions that would have been laughed at a generation ago--that cutting taxes for the very rich is the best response to any and every economic circumstance or that it is perfectly appropriate to turn the most rapacious and self-interested elements of the business lobby into essentially an arm of the federal government--are now so pervasive, they barely attract any notice.

The result has been a slowmotion disaster. Income inequality has approached levels normally associated with Third World oligarchies, not healthy Western democracies. The federal government has grown so encrusted with business lobbyists that it can no longer meet the great public challenges of our time. Not even many conservative voters or intellectuals find the result congenial. Government is no smaller--it is simply more debt-ridden and more beholden to wealthy elites.

It was not always this way. A generation ago, Republican economics was relentlessly sober. Republicans concerned themselves with such ills as deficits, inflation, and excessive spending. They did not care very much about cutting taxes, and (as in the case of such GOP presidents as Herbert Hoover and Gerald Ford) they were quite willing to raise taxes in order to balance the budget. While many of them were wealthy and close to business, the leaders of business themselves had a strong sense of social responsibility that transcended their class interests. By temperament, such men were cautious rather than utopian.

Over the last three decades, however, such Republicans have passed almost completely from the scene, at least in Washington, to be replaced by, essentially, a cult.

I can tell you exactly the moment when I decided to run for office.

It was the Henry County Young Republicans Town Hall when I realized that the moderate who wasn't touting a rightwing Moral Majority party line on the gays and choice also wasn't saying a peep about the rent seeking or regulatory capture that was and is destroying our economy--the use of Government power to redistribute wealth upwards.

As soon as I realized I could run to the right of my Republican State Representative on health care and the economy I knew I had to run.  Because it was then that I realized Pay-to-Play politics has Strickland on the run... he released this photos the other day confirming my hunch.

Why won't Brian speak out against the right wing destroying our economy in the name of enriching themselves?  What's he running from and who is he running for?

Chip in now. Your $5, $25 or $50 contribution will help get the message out to voters that Brian Strickland had his chance and has failed to move Georgia forward.  Strickland is mocking you while criminals destroy our economy and our liberty for their own gain.  It is truly out of touch.