NEW YORK — Since 2001, under the guise of “reforms,” the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has adopted Bush’s undemocratic dogma of market fundamentalism — dysfunctional deregulation, privatization and corporate money games. Such dogma destroyed America’s financial systems, social safety net and manufacturing, and ushered in the Bush depression crisis of 2008.
By then, Bush-dictated “reforms” had also weakened Japan’s economy and society so severely that this country could not withstand the global repercussions of the Bush depression.
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