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In reply to the discussion: The real truth is that people across the planet are fed up of [View all]NJCher
(35,658 posts)54. do you read?
There are plans. I don't even see how a reasonable person could make a statement like this.
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I hear we need to be "pragmatic" and accept our fate. Pragmatism is the excuse for
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#1
Thank you for that far-ranging, detailed and refreshingly realistic post. Sobering.
leveymg
Jun 2016
#77
Many thrd world countries experienced the heavy hand of corporatists first...
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#107
Yes I have also. I don't understand how it fits into Democratic Values. Are these
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#40
The aspects you name are only part of the total picture of globalism.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2016
#34
Then what, besides the capitalist model, IS the total picture of globalism. If you can't say, then
ancianita
Jun 2016
#46
The problem is not globalism, the problem is wealth inequality and income inequality.
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2016
#62
No one is dreaming of returning to the 1950's and shame on you for the nasty
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#15
It does however do my heart good to see so many young new voters gravitating around BS.
Rex
Jun 2016
#24
You have no idea what most of the words and terms you just used actually mean, do you?
Scootaloo
Jun 2016
#81
The people only have a couple of tools at their disposal. Votes, torches and pitchforks.
lumberjack_jeff
Jun 2016
#99
The Brexit vote was about bigotted fear of immigrants and Brexit liers (UKIP party)
Bernardo de La Paz
Jun 2016
#6
The neo-liberals promote bigotry to keep the masses distracted. They militarize the local
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#17
A clue would be that he served as a source of inspiration for Thatcher, Pinochet, and Reagan.
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#101
These ideas have been around a lot longer than Friedrich von Hayek
ConservativeDemocrat
Jun 2016
#116
Oh! Sorry. I thought you meant who economists usually use that term about...
ConservativeDemocrat
Jun 2016
#126
Do you see the audacity when someone claims that they, at the exclusion of all others, know what
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#104
Wow, looks like I stepped on someone's foot. There is a huuuge difference between
rhett o rick
Jun 2016
#103
Lord Ashcroft's Scottish polling: mums, dodgy sums and naked politics - The Guardian
newthinking
Jun 2016
#27
Well it is sad, I respect a lot of posters here until they see something the disagree with or don't
Rex
Jun 2016
#20
It is funny watching folks lose their shit over neo-liberalism, you would think they are
Rex
Jun 2016
#52
It pissed me off at one time too, then I finally realized just how common these folks are.
Rex
Jun 2016
#109