One of the most pernicious things about neoliberalism is that it’s just accepted as “fact” or “reality” or “the way things are.” It’s not. It’s only an ideology. The notion that your job i.e. your primary relationship to capital is the most important thing is hollow at best. If you stopped your job right now, would…

No no, come on. You’re confusing the best interest of capital with the interest of people. Capitals best interest is only to produce more capital or profit. It is amoral. It has no need for clean air or clean water because those things are not profitable.

Wrong.  Wrong.  Politics is not about having your personal beliefs reflected back at you.  Politics is about who gets what.  It’s about distribution of resources.  If you think only in terms of what’s best for you and care nothing about what’s best for society, then you deserve this government.  

When you already have what you want and are trying to make sure that doesn’t change it’s pretty easy to characterize anyone else as whiny and impatient.

You mean the literal campaign strategy of the last election? The one where the Democratic candidate lost to the most unpopular candidate in the modern era?

GREAT IDEA LET’S INSIST ON THE PLAN THAT GAVE THE REPUBLICANS THE WHITE HOUSE AND MAJORITY ON BOTH CHAMBERS WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG?

So we can get a Manchin or a Feinstein that has the ‘D’ in the title, but vote along Trump policy lines the majority of the time?

Go fuck yourself. 

I disagree. I think this is a behavior that has at least some origin in the way economic frameworks penetrate American society, which is largely a reflection of the neoliberal consensus in US politics.

I understand your frustration with the lack of a rigid definition, but that doesn’t mean that the term should be abandoned. I think of it more as a heuristic.  That is, there is an ideology that can be called “neoliberal,” and it does have specific, definable characteristics.  Kind of like “centrist.”  That word is…

It has to do with the predominant neoliberal schema for viewing and understanding the world. Neoliberal ideology views everything through an economic lens, in the same way Realist IR theory views everything through the lens of power, mostly state power. It’s the assumption under their framework.

I have, and it’s the neoliberal focus on viewing the world through a heavily economically focused, if not solely economically focused, lens. That is a neoliberal trait, even if it’s not as blatant outside the US which has a stronger capitalist bend. 

We are always there, because if you are not constantly reminded of this right now you will continue letting it go on underneath Biden or Kamala Harris after 2020 just like you let it go on under Obama without ever saying anything about it.

More like, thank you for being honest about a complicated issue rather than pretending our side is morally superior and has the perfect solution.

But it has been fair for white people to paint minorities with this brush for literally hundreds of years?

He should be forced to go into the lake and dredge up whatever was in there and put it back where he found it. He should be forced to replace anything that he ruined.

Then you are not one of the white people he is talking about.

Given this last election i’d say it’s fair to paint whites with the same brush they paint everyone who isn’t white. A broad, often violent, unfeeling brush.

I know it’s assault, but sometimes you have to take a stand. someone should have kicked his fucking teeth in. When I was younger me and my moms were homeless for a few months, the mental toll it takes on you is staggering and the fact you have nothing to look forward to. White people in this fucking country are…

Clinton says “stay the course” because she’s too blind to the effects of the course because she’s only benefited. I hope we’re all aware the founders weren’t infallible demigods. They designed the system to be stable for white landowning men too. Even then, some of them recognized quick reactions were inevitable and…