I have made a decades-long point of pointing out the US economy long ago stopped being capitalist in nature.

And is instead long been a creeping form of Diet Fascism.  The ever-increasing harmonic convergence of Big Government and Big Business to maximize their respective interests – at the expense of all the rest of US.

Big Biz’s conduit to Big Gov is, of course, DC’s monstrous lobbying industry.  The main metaphor (metonym) that part of the Deep State acquired – is K Street.  The DC avenue notorious for the many, many lobbyists and other DC influencers who have for decades taken up residence thereon.

Of course, DC influencers exist throughout DC.  And in nearby parts of Maryland and Northern Virginia.  In 2019, nine of the country’s twenty wealthiest counties – were DC suburbs.

I can’t find a more recent assessment.  My guess?  Everyone in DC is too embarrassed to conduct the reassessment.  Because it’s almost certainly gotten even worse. (more…)