Tornado Alley (PROG)

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Where does having a criminal and a liar in the White House lead. Where could his feeding mistrust of important democratic institutions such as the press and legal systems lead. Where does his exploitative, fearmongering around fear of replacement by minority non-white people lead. Where does creating crisis so as to help solve them by implementation of more restrictive social policies, such as as making protest demonstration more difficult to hold lead. It's beyond my pay scale too but am guessing it leads to, as you suggest, some sense of authoritarian fascist dictatorship.

There is so much overlap between labels as authoritarianism, fascism and neoliberalism i'm still working on what is what, as you. I hadn't forgotten your other post just hadn't gotten to it yet.

Every little bit of reading helps. Another heree

Neoliberalism as a class ideology; or, the political causes of the growth of inequalities

Vicente Navarro 1
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PMID: 17436985 DOI: 10.2190/AP65-X154-4513-R520

Abstract

Neoliberalism is the dominant ideology permeating the public policies of many governments in developed and developing countries and of international agencies such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, World Trade Organization, and many technical agencies of the United Nations, including the World Health Organization. This ideology postulates that the reduction of state interventions in economic and social activities and the deregulation of labor and financial markets, as well as of commerce and investments, have liberated the enormous potential of capitalism to create an unprecedented era of social well-being in the world's population. This article questions each of the theses that support such ideology, presenting empirical information that challenges them. The author also describes how the application of these neoliberal policies has been responsible for a substantial growth of social inequalities within the countries where such policies have been applied, as well as among countries. The major beneficiaries of these policies are the dominant classes of both the developed and the developing countries, which have established worldwide class alliances that are primarily responsible for the promotion of neoliberalism.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17436985/