What It Means to Be Neoliberal
Sounds pretty good. Neo, a new, revised version of liberal, a person who favors a political philosophy of progress and reform and the protection of civil liberties.
I guess I’d like some of that, perhaps even a double-helping
But it’s a play on words to confuse issues and it was invented to do exactly that, to sound great and deliver a crushing defeat to American prosperity.
When you put the two together, the resulting neoliberal is defined as having or showing belief in the need for economic growth in addition to traditional liberalistic values. It’s the ‘in addition’ that spills too many spoons of pepper into the stew.
Mindsets, once created, are hard to change
So says The Atlantic in a recent and prescient piece
“Many Americans still think of the United States as a land of opportunity. They still believe in something called the American dream, even though for decades the statistics have painted a darker picture. The rate of absolute income mobility—that is, the percentage of children who…