... and Bernie Sanders never joined our Party.

The horse and sparrow economic theory; Feed the horse more oats and the sparrows will have plenty to eat. That is neoliberalism.

Murphy's definition is more like Ayn Rand-ism.

Maybe Democrats needed an FDR type politician like Bernie? He certainly appeals to working class Americans.

We need more outspoken Senators like Bernie.

So liberalism for corporations and indentured servitude for the rest of us.
Or think of it as liberalism that a neoconservative could fail in love with.

With the standard Democratic polices. Bernie Sanders and AOC and Elizabeth Warren are the antidote to neoliberalism.

He taxed the rich a minimum 15%. He forgave student loans. He got huge bills passed that created working class jobs.

He was the first president to walk in a union picket line.

President Biden took on the 1%.

I want more Chris Murphys and progressive women leading us. It is frustrating to me that we don't and now face this monster Trump again. But what Chris and RIchard's pollsters are telling them right now is unknown to me, a constituent of theirs. I guess Connecticut is outside the mainstream.

Right now in New Haven if I polled the people on my block, my guess is nearly 100% voted Dem at the top of the ticket.

bad thing to do) and has pensions to this day. He also inherited valuable property from his parents (who were public school teachers). We do have high taxes in CT but we have valuable services. We will probably not outlive all of our money but not much to leave to our kids/grandkids. We are happy here; New Haven has a nice vibe for us at least.

My adopted mother was born there, and aunt and uncle had a house on RFD #5 in New Milford, along the Housatonic river.

We, from NY, thought of it as our 'country' place; we visited holidays, went to Candlewood Lake, and brought a tree in from their property for Chanukah/Christmas. Aunt had served in army as nurse in Europe during WWII, and uncle lost much of his hearing 'over there,' which is where they met. I think he worked for a utility, in/near Danbury, making/repairing stuff.

Clintonism is dead. Go hard left.

I learned about it from Thom Hartman back in Air America days!

The book gave background on each audio segment.
To say I was stunned by his second bill of rights is an understatement. I know he wasn’t perfect but was a beautiful vision of what this country could have been.
My wife is funny though, when I told her what was there, she said “oh, they must have killed him”. I told her that I had never heard even a rumor of that. She said “I don’t care, the wealthy would never let that happen”.
And at least we 2 remember. Maybe we should make the contents a post.

Might not be a bad idea to remind people.

While he was not perfect this would have been such a safer basis for a decent, even more comfortable living for many more people!

The little people on the bottom, their needs, desires and lives are not important. We are easily replaced. I think we need to adopt the attitude that the wealthy and corporations are easily replaced, a huge corporation can be easily broken up into many smaller companies that could be run without the ability to monopolize a customer base. That would increase competition and force them to lower prices. Right now there is very little competition because so many huge corporations own most of everything and they work together to fleece the rest of us.

I tried to grab a link for you but can’t on my phone.
At the magazine website search for “meet the corporation” it’s from 2005 but a powerful and revelatory article

I tried to grab a link for you but can’t on my phone.
At the magazine website search for “meet the corporation” it’s from 2005 but a powerful and revelatory article

...the great concentrations of power we see globally today. In fact that is the result of a lack of normal market constraints that should be exercised by the government to curb monopoly power. That is a political policy breakdown due to the corporate capture of most of our politicians. It is not a function of neoliberalism per se. It was engineered by Oligarchs.

When we abrogated any form of of anti-trust, the capitalist model breaks down. "Free market" capitalism requires competition.

Inflation needs two things to occur, a concentration of supply whether real or manufactured (monopoly corporations), and inelastic demand. No matter how much the price of eggs, milk, or real estate went up, we as consumers kept buying it.
Our household didn't but we a a drop in the bucket.

The inflation problem was our problem as consumers. We couldn't stop buying, even if it meant going into monstrous debt. The monopoly corporations sensed this and kept raising prices.

Oil prices fell below zero in the commodity markets during the pandemic. The most important commodity in the industrial world fell below zero one afternoon during settlement, Let that sink in for a second. That shouldn't be possible. But it happened.

Neoliberalism or not, consumers have always been in charge. They just don't realize it.

That is also engineered.

We are the commodity...

I’ve been calling it “vampire capitalism” because if there is an “artery” i.e. they want to tap into it.

How far behind the times is he that he doesn't realize that liberalism has been dead across the spectrum for nearly a decade. But go on, keep talking about "community" and the "collective" while, somehow inexplicably shedding support in those very communities you say you support. What an embarrassing misread of the moment.

Neoliberalism is distinct from liberalism insofar as it does not advocate laissez-faire economic policy, but instead is highly constructivist and advocates a strong state to bring about market-like reforms in every aspect of society.

Post # 16 nailed it.

the term is usually used here on DU. Anything to the right of Bernie Sanders is neoliberal you know.

The Dutch and British East India companies revived.