Did the meaning of "neoliberals" change? Didn't that mean conservative economically liberal people like George W. Bush and Dick Cheney?
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Neoliberalism is the guiding ethos of both the Republican and the Democratic parties since at least the 80s. Austerity, deregulation, gutting worker protections and social services. Every single president since Reagan has been a neoliberal of some form.
A land value tax would fix that
Georgism isn't enough. We need more than georgism because big corporations in America aren't average merchants who only want to sell their stuff. We need socialism or, minimum, distributism to fix this mess
Edit:
- Change "to fix that" to "to fix this mess"
- Change "ordinary merchants" to "average merchants"
How?
The consequence of always choosing the middle ground is that the middle ground will be progressively pulled toward the right.
It's like finding the average of an array of integers. If someone keeps adding negative numbers to the array, eventually the average will be negative. The people who instinctively go "but compromise!!!" without question or criticism are no smarter than a computer blindly computing the mean of a list.
The consequence of always choosing the middle ground is that the middle ground will be progressively pulled toward the right.
You're right. Ronald Reagan is prove for this. Ronald Reagan pulled what FDR did
“Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.
You take a step towards him, he takes a step back.
Meet me in the middle, says the unjust man.”
more 👏 pantsuit 👏 oligarchs 👏
liberals are the shitty dystopia that we can actually, somewhat, tolerate.
The "carrot to the stick" some would say.
they enticing us with a rotten carrot now