Think tank to study privatizing most Postal Service operations

[Ed Suspicious]

36. I don't think it's appropriate to conflate

Neoliberal economic doctrine and it's adherents with political liberalism and the Democratic party.
When one can describe both Bill Clinton and Milton Friedman as Neoliberal, well, that should illustrate the point that the term "neoliberal" is not addressing a particular political party.

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In the link, Chomsky talks about the anti-democratic effect of Neoliberal doctrine. He points out indeed how striking it is to see that "every element of the Neoliberal Package is specifically designed to undercut democracy." Near the end he talks about the idea of privatization as a neoliberal mantra, and how privatization by definition undercuts democracy by removing something from the public arena and putting it in the hands of unaccountable private tyrannies that are created and supported by the state which is what corporations are." This is especially germane to the conversation we're having here about privatizing the public postal service.

The meaning of neoliberalism has changed over time and come to mean different things to different groups. As a result, it is very hard to define. This is seen by the fact that authoritative sources on neoliberalism, such as Friedrich Hayek, Milton Friedman, David Harvey and Noam Chomsky do not agree about the meaning of neoliberalism.

I referenced the wikipedia article as a quick and dirty explanation of why I chose the word. You quoted this section on how the term seems to have an unsettled meaning. I suspect that if these intellectual giants are lacking agreement, we'll find ourselves at a similar impasse, but I hope you better understand why I chose the word and can be assured that I did not chose it to denigrate the democratic party except where it's members are prone to ascribe to neoliberal doctrine.