• Ghostalmedia@lemmy.world
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    the DNC is solely responsible for the rise of neoliberalism

    Neoliberalism is commonly associated with conservatism and the economic policies of America’s right, not the left. Although presidents like Clinton were fairly big on neoliberal economics. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

    The term “neoliberalism” can be kind of confusing because it contains “liberal” in it. Socially liberal and economically liberal are pretty different things.

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        You said the DNC “solely” pushed neoliberalism. I’m saying that most of the pushing has been from the GOP. The 90’s DNC was pretty into it (looking at NAFTA), but over the past 40 years, most of the push for small government and deregulation has come from the GOP, not the DNC.

        I don’t think saying that is particularly controversial. Every single republican candidate is proud of that.

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          Who started gutting unions before Regan using the Thaft-Hartley act? Yeah that’s right, Carter. This isn’t new. Taxes cuts for the rich in the DNC date back from the Kennedy era.

          Damn Liberals!

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            Yup. I never said it was all or nothing. Just saying that neoliberalism is pushed much more by America’s right.

            And I would argue that, now that the parties have polarized, the DNC is less neoliberal than in the past, and the GOP is hyper neoliberal these days.

            • Yeah, the DNC’s 2016 candidate was definitely not a neoliberal amirite

              What was their name again?

              Are we saying Joe Biden, who has supported every neoliberal globalist economic policy that came across his congressional desk, is not a neoliberal? And that his nomination was a sign of a post-80s DNC economic policy sea change?

              (X) Doubt

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                Never said he didn’t have neoliberal policies. I’m just saying that small government and deregulation is pushed MUCH more aggressively by his opponents on the other side of the aisle.

                Just because you can categorize Dr Pepper and crack as stimulants, that doesn’t make them the same. One is much more destructive.