The Goal of the Neo-Liberal Consensus Is to Manage the Decline
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2016/03/gaius-publius-the-goal-of-the-neo-liberal-consensus-is-to-manage-the-decline.htmlWhy do neo-liberal Democrats, like the Clinton campaign, not want you to have big ideas, like single-payer health care? Because having big ideas is resistance to the bipartisan consensus that runs the country, and they want to stave off that resistance.
But thats a negative goal, and theres more. They not only have to stave off your resistance. They have to manage your acceptance of their managed decline in the nations wealth and good fortune.
Again: The goal of the neo-liberal consensus is to manage the decline, and manage your acceptance of it.
http://coreyrobin.com/2016/03/01/notes-on-a-dismal-and-delightful-campaign/
onecaliberal
(32,895 posts)I also think your assertion that a majority of people are for her, assumes facts not yet in evidence. 67% of the population think she is a liar. She is currently being investigated by the FBI, however, I've yet to hear that on any news channel to date. I hear what you're saying, but I do not accept that we cannot force a change.
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)The choice we are presented with is the old same old of allowing those who have managed our society into this hole, or those who don't like this hole we are in and wish to manipulate the changes into whereby the pain and suffering is minimized.
The same old are those who are the have mores and who hardly give a damn about the masses and how the masses manage the coming changes.
What Bernie presents is the idea that the masses are to be helped in dealing with the coming changes.
It could not be clearer the distinction between the two camps.
Blue_Tires
(55,445 posts)tk2kewl
(18,133 posts)i'm happy to settle for less, in fact i would embrace a simpler life, but it's unconscionable to ask John and Jane Q to do with less while the 1% scarfs up more and more.
provide education, healthcare and basic living standards for all, and reign in capitalism before it destroys the planet.
Doctor_J
(36,392 posts)We got to watch the party of FDR and lbj and JFK morph into the party of Reagan and Bush right before our very eyes.