Criticizing the DLC, the Third Way and the Blue Dogs is not "bashing Democrats".

[LWolf]

97. I don't know why you can't "get" neoliberalism,

unless you just don't want to.

I'll try to use short sentences and small words:

It's unregulated capitalism. Oops. Two long words. It's letting the people with all the money make more money for themselves while the rest of us make less and less, can afford less and less, have fewer rights as workers, work more and more lower wage jobs to survive, and slip further and further into poverty.

Part of that process includes using workers in countries that have fewer rights for workers. They work for less, providing more profit for the wealthy owners of our capital.

There's more, of course, but maybe you could just start with the simple basics.

And maybe you could recognize that, regardless of what label is applied to the neoliberal powers that be: DLC, "New Democrats," Third Way, "Centrist," etc., they are all neoliberals. It's an economic term. Neo-liberals, if it helps, often claim to be "socially liberal and fiscally conservative," when, in reality, they are all about economic liberalism: deregulation of capitalism.

You could look back at the Progressive Era at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries and the part of progressivism that sought to regulate corporations to keep them in check. You could follow the deregulations and bipartisan trade deals during my lifetime to see how they've led to a new era of corporate greed, corruption, and control.

Or you could continue to deny the reality.