Yet another reminder Regular readers know that when conservatives talk about freedom and choice; when they complain about government waste, fraud, and abuse; when they raise the alarm about federal deficits; and when they talk about replacing the New Deal with a “better deal”; they are acting as Wall Street shills. They don’t care about the amount of government spending, only about into whose pockets that spending goes. Nor do they care about improving not-for-profit government services they think should not exist if, even just in theory, they might be provided by the private sector at a markup. Like public education. Not exploiting government spending for private profit is a crime against capitalism. We’ve seen in the last few day how commerical interest corrupts the delivery of accurate news. Adam Serwer wrote of Fox in The Atlantic (emphasis mine): “The Dominion filing drives home a few points. One is that there is a Fox News propaganda feedback loop: The network inflames right-wing conspiracism, but it also bows to it out of partisan commitment and commercial incentive.“ Fox has always been a propaganda operation. The Dominion filing just ices that cake with Tucker Carlson’s insistence that a fact-checker be fired because his audience doesn’t want facts. “The stock price is down. Not a joke,” Carlson texted nighttime anchors Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity. I mentioned the other day that I was listening to Michael Lewis’ “The Fifth Risk.” One of his most-shocking and under-reported tales of the Trump administration involves Trump’s…