sweetheart
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Thu Aug-04-05 07:49 PM
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Whats with all the neoliberalism? |
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Why suddenly all the threads about forcing people to take classes, become registered and creating new government powers to invade the home.
In the macrocosm, this same thinking leads to invading OTHER countries, forcing people to become registered or in prison and creating new government powers to invade and kill citizens.
It all smacks of meddling, big fat government meddling in private lives until we are as bad as the GOP... legislating the way people should live and increasing the power of government at the cost of citizen choice, freedom and liberty.
Is that it, have the meddlers taken over democratic thinking as well?
hou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly...
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Thu Aug-04-05 07:54 PM
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1. the stuff in the Lounge? |
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I think you missed the fact that those were posted in the lounge. We tend to put up posts like that to poke fun at some of the uber-seriousness in GD.
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sweetheart
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Thu Aug-04-05 08:18 PM
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I am not discussing the lounge.
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Thu Aug-04-05 10:26 PM
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Just to explain, on behalf of the Lounge, we also recognize when people take ridiculuous positions in GD. Then we copycat them to hell. And it is fun. The steam is blown off. :silly:
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Thu Aug-04-05 07:55 PM
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but then I came to the DP b/c of the http://www.democraticfreedomcaucus.org/">Democratic Freedom Caucus which is pretty frikkin small.
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Charlie Brown
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Thu Aug-04-05 07:57 PM
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3. Are you against mandatory education laws? |
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I'm not sure what you're commenting on.
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sweetheart
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Thu Aug-04-05 08:15 PM
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Skinner said this very eloquently in a post some months back, that DU has (i think 3 basic communities)
Libertarian democrats DLC democrats and Left democrats
So these threads are an outbreak of the latter two sorts of democratic thinking against the first sort. So the question is relevant to the general political climate of discussion.
IMO, the democratic party can win back its following by standing up to corporatism and neoliberalism. By realizing that the DLC republican lite thinking has sold the farm, and that the only way to recover integrity is to come out swinging for equality of all citizens, civil rights of all citizens, privacy rights, and an empowered sense of the legal integrity of the individual in civil society.
The democratic party lost the high ground back in the 70's with busing. It put rich suburban kids on busses and shipped them to deprived innner city schools, and started down a long road to having no power in any house of government. And too often, people pull that same meddling instinct out of the toolbox and say, "What about this one?" And history shows us that it is a failed mechanism, this meddling.
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Thu Aug-04-05 08:31 PM
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6. neoliberalism is an economic philosophy |
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I suspect you're referring to something else. See wikipedia's article on neoliberalism.
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Fri Aug-05-05 05:02 AM
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I'm saying the two are related. That the presumption of free trade and the colonial approaches that it conceals is the macrocosm for a sort of internal colonialism, where corporate government colonizes the lives of every individual, pushing in to their lives a system of imposed totolitarianism that is merely the domestic reflection of far away free trade.
free trading away our liberties is how it looks from here, and its splitting hairs to say that its not tied to neoliberalism, DLC corporatism and that general approach.
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Fri Aug-05-05 12:48 PM
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9. it really is purely economic; the political counterpart is neoconservative |
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Fri Aug-05-05 01:06 PM
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10. buying a dog, having a kid and buynig a gun are economic |
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activities. It is an economic thing, this snooping on people using registry lists and their purchasing habits to impose examinations and whatnot on them.
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