12-21-2016, 11:58 AM
(12-18-2016, 07:11 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: Neo-liberalism is the problem.
Gen X grew up believing it. The older folks fell under its spell. Millennials might not have fallen under it fully, yet.
It would be nice, speaking of things like Trump happening because of lost promises, if instead of voting for more of the same broken promises, people woke up and voted against it.
But lots of people in America are not smart, it seems; nor nice, for that matter. So yes, because of that, we get Trump.
It helps to be well-informed. People who are well-informed, tend not to make those mistakes.
I read Michael Lind so I never believed in neoliberalism.
"These, and many other matters which might be noticed, add a volume of unofficial declarations to the mass of organic utterances that this is a Christian nation" - Justice David Brewer, Church of the Holy Trinity v. United States, 1892