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Remember when we were all about global free trade and supply side economics and consumer surpluses? I guess it's no fun when someone else does it to us. Sarcasm
by hangonhn 3y ago
Remember when we were all about global free trade and supply side economics and consumer surpluses? I guess it's no fun when someone else does it to us. Sarcasm aside, I think we are now realizing that talking about supply side without considering the demand side (i.e. workers who can afford even these abundant goods) is going to be very detrimental in the long run.
- kmeisthax 3y agoNot just "very detrimental in the long run" - more like "actively fueling far-right fascists in the very short term". The working class does not care who promises them revenge, or even if that revenge is targeted at their oppressors, as long as revenge is eventually provided by someone.
- OhMeadhbh 3y agoI don't disagree with you about breeding fascists now. Though I wonder, in a few years after we do more Trump and things fail to get better, and then we swing back the other way and elect the ghost of Bernie Sanders (cause I really don't know anyone on the left who could impress the disaffected middle-American electorate.) What then? I guess that's why the far right wing is trying to take over before we have to have elections again. I'm just curious if swinging back and forth between left and right wing isn't more destructive than just right wing.
- OhMeadhbh 3y agoI never thought I would remember the Reagan era so longingly.