08-20-2020, 09:10 AM
(08-19-2020, 01:59 PM)Warren Dew Wrote:(08-04-2020, 12:13 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: The Gen Z designation that has been widely adopted comes from Pew Research, and indeed it is just a convenient dating tool based only on an age group that they chose. Meanwhile, Millennials, including their late cohorts grouped by Pew as Gen Z or Zoomers, are behaving like civics, just as the authors predicted, and social media involvement is the best example of that networking tendency of civics. And so is their more-liberal outlook on the need for collective institutional power, a necessary corrective to the neo-liberal Reaganomics they grew up in.
I would agree, except that "collective institutional power" is exactly the opposite of "liberal". But hey, if you want to call President Trump's more authoritarian tendencies "liberal", I guess you can use the terminology how you like.
In this case, neoliberalism refers to the economic policies introduced in the 1980s “Reaganomics”, which deregulated the economic markets. It was this market freedom which made the term neoliberalism stick.
On the other hand, the “more liberal outlook on the need for collective institutional power”, refers to a more open attitude towards stronger institutions, as opposed to the economic freedom connotations of neoliberalism of the previous age.
As you can see, the definition and connotations of “liberal” changes with the times and generations.
