I am not too active here, but much thanks! I really like your administration and site!

It is both an outgrowth of UK and US directly funding and supporting Muslim extremism to divide opposition to colonialism/imperialism since Jews, Christians, and leftists would be alienated and the rally around the flag type of effect of using already at-hand identity markers to opposed invaders and oppressors. The entire cold war was the US and sometimes their vassals like Saudi Arabia funding and supporting Islamism, as a counterweight to secular leftist forms of anti-colonialism, which they were actively suppressing, because of its incompatibility with socialism/communism.

Most easy and obvious examples is the Mujaheddin, aka proto-Al Qaeda and Taliban precursor. And Israel supporting Hamas over the PLO since the PLO was a secular organization that appealed to human rights.

Almost exclusively backed fascists and dictators one might say. Important facet of the Cold War, “say what you will about fascists, they will never go soft on Communists.”

https://theintercept.com/2021/03/08/nevada-democratic-party-dsa/

The entire raison d’etre of the Democratic party is to make polite Republicanism the only alternative to real Republicanism. They have consistently proved that unity to fight Republicans is only ever supposed to go one way. Progressives have to give up all of their ideals and positions to support the right-wing of the Democratic Party, which should never be questioned or asked to compromise in any form. If progressive policies would help win elections against Republicans, than all the centrists will sabotage everything to help Republicans win, rather than let progressives win on popular policies.

It was the centrists Dems that gave us Trump. Making Neoliberalism bipartisan and the hollowing out of America that paved the way for Trump. BILLIONAIRES CONTROLLED BOTH PARTIES STARTING WITH CLINTON IN 1992, AT THE LATEST! The Democrats would rather try to use the crude and crass actions of the Republicans, to try to run on their platform, but being the lesser evil, since they are polite. There is a reason Obama and Biden are the top two deportation presidents. And Biden/Harris continued to support genocide, even though it posed an electoral liability.

The Democrats aren’t people with their heart in the right place, forced to make compromises. They are the sheep-dogs forcing people to accept “lesser evils” when the “lesser evils” are the same policies with a figurehead being more polite. Their entire point is to use the two-party system to prevent any substantive opposition to right-wing policy to take form.

The most American president, does something Americanly, embracing the centuries long precedents of the American far-right. “What are we, a bunch of Asians!”

Far-IR radiation is male, so sending it through your dick makes you gay.

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Liberalism is not fully mutually exclusive with regulation, but liberal regulation is to try to maintain capitalist markets against their own failures. Yes, they can be willing to engage in some regulation to try to maximize future markets and capitalism. But they are pro-oligarch and pro-inequality, liberals are trying to maintain it long-term even if the most extreme excesses of oligarchs must be reigned in for the short term.

But most importantly, Oligarchy and monopolies aren’t an “upset” or disruption of markets, but the obvious and natural outcome. Profits are optimized by consolidation and removing competition. And even if competition is maintained, once one company wins the competition there is monopoly, and the fact that most capital intensive industries have a natural barrier to entry (it would take billions of dollars of venture capital to enter and be a very weak competitor with the incumbent) means that markets have oligarchy and monopoly as their natural and necessary outcome.

A homeless guy can’t just immediately become a billionaire by saying that there should be a competitor of genetic testing with 23andMe.

“we must accept that Pete Seeger and Paul Robeson are paid Soviet trolls, undermining the virtue of the Nazi Aryan State”

America has always been fascist, but it is unsettling how the modern Sturmabteilung feels fine doing this in broad daylight during the last few months.

“Reality has a left-wing bias”

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No, both are pretty neolib. Even though Carter was the first Democrat neoliberal, Bill Clinton made neoliberalism unquestionable bipartisan orthodoxy post-Reagan, and killed any remnants of New Dealers in the Democratic party.

They’re free-marketeers, if it is useful as branding, they’ll do it. If it is not, they are fine with everyone in control being white men.

How dare you say air is a gas? this table is air and this water is air! You can’t keep to this unreasonable purity politics by saying that my laptop isn’t just solid air! Saying my desk can’t be water is “black and white thinking”.

No, it is just that both Reps and Dems are so thoroughly neoliberal that partisan horse-race observers can’t recognize the water that they swim in. Like fish getting angry because everyone keeps talking about this “water” they are swimming in.

It mostly means a dedication to deregulation and free markets. More specifically, private-public partnerships. That is the difference between them and Libertarians or Anarcho-Capitalists, since Neoliberals see that the government needs to provide things like courts, military, police, etc. but want to insert private companies to provide government services (e.g. in WW2, soldiers cleaned and laundered the military’s uniforms internally, now a private company will do the laundry for a military base at a 50% markup).

As all political ideology, in its original formulation, Neoliberalism was a deviation from liberalism, in the Vienna Circle, by its rejection of “political liberalism”. It didn’t believe in formal freedom, democracy, equality, etc. Real freedom is the freedom to buy and sell on an unregulated market, real democracy is the ability to vote with your wallet, and real equality is the lack of regulations protecting one group from another. This is why neoliberals of the 1920s and 30s were pro-fascist, since the fascists were so dedicated to privatization and repressing socialists and communists. Thus preserving the freedom of the market, even if later neoliberals want to walk that back.

Liberals are for oligarchy. How can you be anti-oligarchy if you are pro-capitalism and pro-markets?

Weird how the left is crushed and weak when the entirety of the US 20th and 21st century is crushing anti-oligarchy (a.k.a left) forces. Maybe it isn’t a failure of the goal, but that willing yourself into power isn’t going to magically make it happen.

Classical Western Liberalism created this dysfunctional government and is defending and trying to maintain it. The entire reason there is an opening for fascism is that the current liberal government is so dysfunctional and failing. And since both parties are anti-left, the only real option for opposing the failures of the status quo is joining the MAGA-fascist right. This is a repeat of the 1920s, showing how Liberalism enables Fascism.

Wait, when was there anti-fascist options for control of America? Was one of the two major parties anti-genocide, or opposed to putting minorities in concentration camps without due process? I think that you just want lower tariffs, so that your Nintendo is cheaper.