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In reply to the discussion: Please help me out. The term-du-jour now seems to "neoliberal" [View all]Hortensis
(58,785 posts)61. Neoliberalism was an anti-mercantilist
ideology a few centuries ago in which people believe they should have the right to trade independently of the wishes and interests of kings and kingdoms. The more comparable ideology today would be hard-right-wing laissez-faire capitalism.
Why is it being used? ANTI-LIBERAL, ANTI-DEMOCRAT PROPAGANDA. It combines the word "liberal" with the viciously greedy right-wing economic ideology that people across the spectrum finally recognize for what it is and hate.
This is a classic right-wing attempt to use people's ignorance to shift blame for Republican betrayals of the electorate to the Democrats.
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Please help me out. The term-du-jour now seems to "neoliberal" [View all]
Stinky The Clown
Jun 2016
OP
Maybe it's just that some of you are just now noticing other people talking about it?
Scootaloo
Jun 2016
#76
Many people use it as a derogatory diss du jour to describe a pol without knowing what it really
brush
Jun 2016
#66
Because those ideas have been put into place worldwide, some places more, some places less
Warpy
Jun 2016
#7
It's a way to divide us, which is precisely antithetical to what being progressive is about.
CrowCityDem
Jun 2016
#8
it's moving public $$ to private: think Soc Sec, charter schools, pensions
George Eliot
Jun 2016
#74
Anybody who uses that term against a fellow DUer is engaging in a personal attack.
MohRokTah
Jun 2016
#10
It is a game for a few here, they take a term they find offensive and marginalize it
Rex
Jun 2016
#59
That which the US calls 'neoconservative' most of the world calls 'neoliberal'.
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#14
My comment was not intended to be an exact definition of the term but a fun way to point out why
Bluenorthwest
Jun 2016
#22
I've written diaries using and explaining the term for tears. Just because YOU just noticed the term
arendt
Jun 2016
#32
Just because YOU used the term for a year is no reason I should have seen it.
Stinky The Clown
Jun 2016
#52
It's a term the populist left use to conflate the establishment left and the establishment right.
Donald Ian Rankin
Jun 2016
#42
Seemed to appear as a smear word the last few days before GE mode kicked in.
emulatorloo
Jun 2016
#64
That's what I'm thinking, too. Plus, there was the matter of the word's usage.
Stinky The Clown
Jun 2016
#65