The only reason Conservatives pretended to care about

[malaise]

the poor and disabled since the 1930s was the existence of the Soviet Union.
They had to pretend to be the opposite of Russians. The day that wall came down, it was neo-liberalism on steriods.


Discuss

[bahrbearian]

1. After the wall came down , they saw how profitable it was to be an Oligarch.

[malaise]

3. No they could remove the mask

the pretense of democracy

[Blue Meany]

2. They had to be able to say that workers did better under capitalism,

otherwise the overlords might have lost everything. Once the wall fell, they didn't need a middle-class anymore so they began to whittle away at it. But they don't study history or they would realize they are creating exactly the environment for radical leftist movements to strive. The backlash will be worse for them than if they had just acted somewhat more fairly in the first place.