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pampango

(24,692 posts)
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 08:36 PM Oct 2012

From the right: The end of the Cold War meant ... the birth of the neoliberal ... globalists.

From: The Old Conservative for Today

http://www.nolanchart.com/article9896-2012-the-facts-and-common-sense.html

The main reason that America is in such trouble stems from the fall of the Soviet Union in 1991. The downfall of the Soviet Union ended the Cold War. The end of the Cold War meant the end of Classical Realism and the birth of the neoliberal institutionalists or globalists. Globalists believe that the international community is more important than any one nation, even the United States. Neoliberal Institutionalism is an international theory that is explained below.

It is a match made in heaven. America, the Uni-polar power in the world along with the Transnational and Multinational conglomerates would trade with each other making trillions through interdependency. The money made through interdependency would help nation-states learn to live in peace. The utopian social liberals in their great wisdom believed that the various countries of the world would start creating economic dependence on each other. This intermingling of many people of like minds around the world started to eat away at the economic heart of America. Globalization began to kill American manufacturing, technology and businesses in the process. Hence, Neoliberal institutionalists are liberal in many ways beyond the liberal economics and globalization that they stand for. The Liberal Globalist is very dangerous in the sense that they put the United Nations before the United States.

Franklin D. Roosevelt (FDR) was the second great progressive to usher forward the nanny state in America with his creation of Social Security. Since most of the world was in ruin after World War II the United States did not have much difficulty in moving forward economically. In fact, the United States was in pretty good shape as far as technology, natural resources, and manufacturing were concerned. The former was true when the third great progressive President Lyndon B. Johnson won the White House outright. President Johnson created the ‘Great Society" and added Medicaid and Medicare and many other big government programs and handouts for the American people during the Civil Rights Movement. Wilson, Roosevelt and Johnson were all nanny state preachers. America during the three presidencies discussed here could handle the cost of all the progressive programs due to high level of employment and a very productive economic system.

The previous paragraphs and the rundown of progressivism are important. Many like to consider President Obama a progressive when in fact he represents the new liberal or socialist breed—an individual and thinking that is entirely different from the America developed by the progressives. Mitt Romney is not a conservative in the way the Pat Buchanan or the John Birch Society are considered conservative. The Tea Party is much more conservative than Mitt Romney will ever be. Mitt Romney as a 1990s moderate is conservative due to the fact that Obama is a socialist.

Always interesting to get the right wing's take on the world and three great Democratic presidents.

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From the right: The end of the Cold War meant ... the birth of the neoliberal ... globalists. (Original Post) pampango Oct 2012 OP
The most fatal mistake tama Oct 2012 #1
Indeed. A little closer reading of old Austrian economics xchrom Oct 2012 #3
That's an interesting, if totally unbelievable rationalisation and conclusion. PDJane Oct 2012 #2
Shameful conflation Lasher Oct 2012 #4
 

tama

(9,137 posts)
1. The most fatal mistake
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 08:47 PM
Oct 2012

"The end of the Cold War meant the end of Classical Realism and the birth of the neoliberal institutionalists or globalists. Globalists believe that the international community is more important than any one nation, even the United States. Neoliberal Institutionalism is an international theory that is explained below. "

Neoliberals in fact, abhor international community, and do everything they can to break all and any sense of community. They believe only in international capital and pillaging international community - first and foremost that of biosphere - and social capital of all human communities. Neoliberalism is cancerous anti-Earth movement, and the genuine globalism is the global revolution against neoliberal tyranny of banksters.

Lasher

(27,502 posts)
4. Shameful conflation
Sun Oct 7, 2012, 09:10 PM
Oct 2012

You'd never know what a neoliberal is by reading this hogwash. Actually today's political conservatives in the US are most likely to be neoliberals than are actual liberals. But make no mistake, there are Democrats who are neo (new) liberals.

The main points of neo-liberalism include:

THE RULE OF THE MARKET. Liberating "free" enterprise or private enterprise from any bonds imposed by the government (the state) no matter how much social damage this causes. Greater openness to international trade and investment, as in NAFTA. Reduce wages by de-unionizing workers and eliminating workers' rights that had been won over many years of struggle. No more price controls. All in all, total freedom of movement for capital, goods and services. To convince us this is good for us, they say "an unregulated market is the best way to increase economic growth, which will ultimately benefit everyone." It's like Reagan's "supply-side" and "trickle-down" economics -- but somehow the wealth didn't trickle down very much.

CUTTING PUBLIC EXPENDITURE FOR SOCIAL SERVICES like education and health care. REDUCING THE SAFETY-NET FOR THE POOR, and even maintenance of roads, bridges, water supply -- again in the name of reducing government's role. Of course, they don't oppose government subsidies and tax benefits for business.

DEREGULATION. Reduce government regulation of everything that could diminsh profits, including protecting the environmentand safety on the job.

PRIVATIZATION. Sell state-owned enterprises, goods and services to private investors. This includes banks, key industries, railroads, toll highways, electricity, schools, hospitals and even fresh water. Although usually done in the name of greater efficiency, which is often needed, privatization has mainly had the effect of concentrating wealth even more in a few hands and making the public pay even more for its needs.

ELIMINATING THE CONCEPT OF "THE PUBLIC GOOD" or "COMMUNITY" and replacing it with "individual responsibility." Pressuring the poorest people in a society to find solutions to their lack of health care, education and social security all by themselves -- then blaming them, if they fail, as "lazy."

http://www.corpwatch.org/article.php?id=376
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