(Conservative Only) Trump's victory represents the fulfilment of neoliberalism, not its failure

[YmirGF]

Please Note: Conservative Only​

I'm placing this in the Conservative Only section in the hopes of getting an intelligent discussion of the following article unhindered by attempts to derail the thread:

Trump's victory represents the fulfillment of neoliberalism, not its failure

Trump has no intention of limiting the abuses of capitalism, having innovatively engaged in extending and intensifying them. This leaves only one apparent way to maintain neoliberalism with all its destructive excesses: by restricting democracy. The superficially more respectable Republican politicians laid the ground for authoritarian rule by nullifying the protections of voter rights at the national, state and local levels.

Fulfillment of the neoliberal transformation to unregulated capitalism is incompatible with electoral democracy. A polity can have one or the other, but not both. The dark genius of Donald Trump lies in following this incompatibility to its logical conclusion — if his brand of capitalism and electoral democracy conflict, it is democracy that will be undermined.

Comments (once you suppress your laughter, of course)?


The Liberal version of this thread created by @Sunstone can be found here.

 

[Kemosloby]

Who writes that stuff? It sounds like the same BS they say on the conservative side, except for liberals. It's probably the same people writing the stories for both sides.

 

[YmirGF]

Who writes that stuff? It sounds like the same BS they say on the conservative side, except for liberals. It's probably the same people writing the stories for both sides.

I felt similarly. Like how deep does the psychological trauma of losing a god given "win" go for some folks? I did think it was a very creative verbal hand-wringing though.

 

[Sha'irullah]

I find it funny how economic deregulation is not freedom. For people to promote freedom through government you are creating a very blatant contradiction yet the minute you have economic freedoms they complain about suffering under it.
It is like saying "Your lack of violence physically hurts me." People need to stop making excuses and come to grips with their masochism on their own time.

 

[TurkeyOnRye]

I did think it was a very creative verbal hand-wringing though.

Maybe it's just because I have the flu, but I thought it was little more than verbal diarrhea.

I find it funny how economic deregulation is not freedom. For people to promote freedom through government you are creating a very blatant contradiction yet the minute you have economic freedoms they complain about suffering under it.
It is like saying "Your lack of violence physically hurts me." People need to stop making excuses and come to grips with their masochism on their own time.

What they really mean is that without government regulation, big private businesses will inevitably grow out of control and oppress the poor and working classes. And since the left sees the right as the arm of large private businesses, the two are essentially synonymous to them. I don't disagree per se. Private businesses are micro economies and governments in themselves, and they're not democratic either. Without the proper checks and balances, they will conglomerate, and merge, and consolidate resources and supply lines, and sociopaths will float to the top of their ranks. However, in a free and voluntary society, there should theoretically be innumerable ways to subvert this tendency and prevent it from happening.