Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Neoliberalism.....As much a dirty word, even taboo, not to be said much rather explored...

Decadence....NOUN...moral or cultural decline as characterized by excessive indulgence in pleasure or luxury.

Noam hit on that out of the gate...

It hurts somewhat to see it all happening...Much rather for those that live it, then see it so ignored and the only discussion is about the symptoms....

Yours was a very good DD post...

We have an immigration problem yet we fail to understand our role in causing it
The liberal rhetoric of inclusion and common humanity is insufficient: we must also acknowledge the role that a century of U.S.-backed military coups, corporate plundering, and neoliberal sapping of resources has played in the poverty, instability, and violence that now drives people from Guatemala, El Salvador, and Honduras toward Mexico and the United States. For decades, U.S. policies of military intervention and economic neoliberalism have undermined democracy and stability in the region, creating vacuums of power in which drug cartels and paramilitary alliances have risen. In the past fifteen years alone, CAFTA-DR?— [Insert: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican_Republic%E2%80%93Central_America_Free_Trade_Agreement#Opposition] a free trade agreement between the U.S. and five Central American countries as well as the Dominican Republic?—?has restructured .. https://www.telesurtv.net/english/opinion/The-Impact-of-CAFTA-Drugs-Gangs-and-Immigration-20160301-0008.html .. the region’s economy and guaranteed economic dependence on the United States through massive trade imbalances and the influx of American agricultural and industrial goods that weaken domestic industries. Yet there are few connections being drawn between the weakening of Central American rural agricultural economies at the hands of CAFTA and the rise in migration from the region in the years since. In general, the U.S. takes no responsibility for the conditions that drive Central American migrants to the border.

We fail to see our role...The School of The Americas..
https://abcnews.go.com/International/story?id=81917&page=1

Iran is a good example too after we imposed the Shaw on them the repercussions last to this day...most don't know the depth...
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran–United_States_relations#:~:text=The%20friendly%20relations%20between%20the%20United%20States%20and,route%20of%20war%20material%20to%20the%20Soviet%20Union.

So many examples, so little time and yes, back to why we have 1/2 the US population on the brink as we all fail to take the vaccine of truth...

I didn't understand the connection between Authoritarianism and Neo liberalism... I will be more careful with my use of the word...

Trump was only a transparent example of the 'extreme' neoliberal, he lost his bid to reach the pinnacle which is dictatorship....But the door remains open to it as our demacracy is underminded and the ripe tinder remains waiting for the spark caused by it..

But its surprising to see that both parties bare guilt and circles back to my pet peeve, greed....

As people engage in the blame game about the symptoms of, it leaves decadence to continue down its merry path nearly unabated, even protected, supported and defended....