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Neoliberalism (narrowly defined under economic terms) is the idea that minimizing government impact in markets is a good thing, and that government regulation should be designed to efficiently address externalities with as little market distortion as possible.
Neoliberals, for instance, were among the first advocates for single-payer healthcare in the US, as they saw the insurance market as generally one large externality ripe with perverse incentives.
Historically, neoliberals have ranged from Reagan/Thatcher to Bush 1/Clinton, to HRC and Obama. Republicans kind of lost the plot on neoliberalism around 1996.
The internet started shitting on neoliberalism right about the time Hillary Clinton trounced Bernie Sanders, which they also blamed on neoliberalism. Before then, their criticisms were mostly Reagan/thatcher specific. As neoliberalism evolved, so did the internet, because leftists need something to hate and they were the loudest people online at the time.
I am literally a neoliberal. I work with neoliberal groups, donate to neoliberal charities, support neoliberal politicians, and even own a hoodie that says “neoliberal and proud.”
Before I got perma’d from Reddit for saying “The only good nazi is a dead nazi,” I regularly posted on /r/neoliberal.
I am quite aware of what neoliberalism is.
What you’re describing is more just people being bad at their jobs, and this moving you to assume malice instead of incompetence because of their job title.
Sears was dead for almost twenty years, they just didn’t know it yet. They died when malls died, and instead of any sort of pivot, they doubled down. This was a car crash in slow motion.
The internet decreed like a decade ago that “Anything You Don’t Like Is Neoliberalism,” so why not?
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Never trust a political movement that renames itself constantly.
They likely know they can’t defend their policies, so instead they steer the argument towards what their name is.
If that wasn’t the case, they’d tell you what label they want to be called
Neoliberalism (narrowly defined under economic terms) is the idea that minimizing government impact in markets is a good thing, and that government regulation should be designed to efficiently address externalities with as little market distortion as possible.
Neoliberals, for instance, were among the first advocates for single-payer healthcare in the US, as they saw the insurance market as generally one large externality ripe with perverse incentives.
Historically, neoliberals have ranged from Reagan/Thatcher to Bush 1/Clinton, to HRC and Obama. Republicans kind of lost the plot on neoliberalism around 1996.
The internet started shitting on neoliberalism right about the time Hillary Clinton trounced Bernie Sanders, which they also blamed on neoliberalism. Before then, their criticisms were mostly Reagan/thatcher specific. As neoliberalism evolved, so did the internet, because leftists need something to hate and they were the loudest people online at the time.
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I am literally a neoliberal. I work with neoliberal groups, donate to neoliberal charities, support neoliberal politicians, and even own a hoodie that says “neoliberal and proud.”
Before I got perma’d from Reddit for saying “The only good nazi is a dead nazi,” I regularly posted on /r/neoliberal.
I am quite aware of what neoliberalism is.
What you’re describing is more just people being bad at their jobs, and this moving you to assume malice instead of incompetence because of their job title.
Sears was dead for almost twenty years, they just didn’t know it yet. They died when malls died, and instead of any sort of pivot, they doubled down. This was a car crash in slow motion.
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See my original post in this thread.