01-19-2022, 06:20 AM
(01-18-2022, 09:45 PM)beechnut79 Wrote:(01-18-2022, 04:58 PM)pbrower2a Wrote: Neoliberalism is anything but liberal. It is spent as an ideology and has failed.
So, how far away do you think we are from being able to give Reaganomics last rites?
When people have a meaningful chance to see something better. Upon evaporating Reaganomics to its essence one finds that it is little more than cheap labor and captive markets. People are underpaid and overworked, which is good for keeping prices low. People create prosperity through their toil yet are denied the ability to prosper from their toil. Meanwhile profiteers in real estate constrain the availability of housing, which ensures that slumlords (basically just about any apartment over forty years old is a slum) gouge severely.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.