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The most interesting thing to happen politically over the last 20 years are "progressives" embracing big corporations and endless war.
by cpursley 3y ago
The most interesting thing to happen politically over the last 20 years are "progressives" embracing big corporations and endless war.
- CyberDildonics 3y agoWhat endless war?
- bryanlarsen 3y agoIt happened a lot earlier than that. Progressives embracing corporations is neoliberalism which got big in the 80's.
- text0404 3y agoliberals (classical liberals who support capitalism and free markets) embracing corporations is neoliberalism. progressivism generally doesn't support ideas like small government or privatization or deregulation. "neoliberalism" is a right-wing philosophy.
- HDThoreaun 3y agoDemocrats are the party of the educated elite. As the percentage of college educated increased they become a big enough block to take control of the party from the blue collar group. Big corporations have served the well educated population of this country quite well in general.
- text0404 3y agothis never happened. one of the central tenets of progressivism is that capitalist markets allow giant corporations to become unaccountable to the people and that big business generally shouldn't exist.
- foogazi 3y agoReally ? To me the biggest wtf is “party of Reagan” Republicans rooting for Russia