> Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has

> Neoliberalism – the ideology at the root of all our problems Financial meltdown, environmental disaster and even the rise of Donald Trump – neoliberalism has played its part in them all. Why has the left failed to come up with an alternative? Because, for the most part, the (so called) left has signed on (at least in the USA). > Stranger still, even as the ideology became crisper and the movement more coherent, the lost name was not replaced by any common alternative. Strange? Why? It's universally embraced. It's the status quo. It's ubiquitous...like air They give names to anything outside that circle but never the cicle itself. It's also a slight of control hand. Orwellian. Without the necessary words, how can we discuss something? The winner is writing the rules. And like Fight Club it persists because no one talks about it. They can't. No words. > With the help of sympathetic journalists and political advisers, elements of neoliberalism, especially its prescriptions for monetary policy, were adopted by Jimmy Carter’s administration in the US and Jim Callaghan’s government in Britain. This persists today. Journalism is supposed to be objective and truth-seeking. Instead, the winner has made them into sock puppets. More Orwellian-isms. Yet point any of these things out to the average punter - leaning left or right - and they just wave their hand, mumble "conspiracy theory" and shove their heads deeper into the sand. Sight the likes of Klein or similar and the choke on the idea of reading a book. Note: I'm not being a critic, just the messenger. We're in The Matrix (so to speak), it's only going to deepen its bite going forward.