09-12-2021, 11:42 AM
(This post was last modified: 09-12-2021, 11:58 AM by Eric the Green.)
(09-12-2021, 09:09 AM)David Horn Wrote:(09-11-2021, 04:38 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I'm not a Neo Liberal. I'm a Classical Liberal.
Yes, I agreee. You are an economic libertarian and a social conservative. That means that the ones with the gold make the rules, in your view at least. In my opinion you shouldn't cling too tight to that view. It may prove toxic.
No, you are a neo-liberal, and a social conservative, which today blend together in most conservative opinion. Some neo-liberals can separate their economic libertarianism from prejudice (social conservatism); you and most others do not.
A neo-liberal IS an economic libertarian, and that is all that a neo-liberal is per se. The terms are synonymous, except that it is said that neo-liberals are more aggressive than classical economic libertarians, because they not only allow business to do what it wants, but insist on and develop policies to force everyone and many other nations and peoples to do so.
Classic Xer is an ultra-typical example of how someone's resentment against welfare spending that benefits ethnic groups and immigrants, boosts their desire to see "smaller government", less regulation, and above all, lower taxes, and lower spending for social programs. And since neo-liberals are ardent believers in the trickle-down theory, they don't care whose taxes are lowered. Reducing taxes on rich people equates for neo-liberals giving more prosperity to "job creaters".
And since poor and middle class, mostly-older-white neo-liberals are convinced that they are "self-reliant" and of "strong character," they also don't want taxes lowered on rich people because they really believe they may be rich themselves one day, and want to be because it's a dog eat dog, social-darwinist world. And of course these self-reliant, mostly-white, mostly-older folks are the true "Americans." Because that's the true original American way, before all these immigrants were allowed in, and before non-whites were given all their extra advantages thanks to critical race theory.