Religion is quite an enabler of neoliberalism. Part of the reason I want to see it die off
Just look at Oklahoma and Utah. Does anybody really think that the elected Republicans are religious?
They just wrap themselves in it in order to get millions of evangelical votes and waste all of our time talking about stupid things like birth control instead of the distribution of income/wealth and the blatant purchasing of government policy by those with money. They are using its opportunity cost to their advantage.
Not that the Democrats do very much on their own to pass economic legislation really benefiting the vast majority of the country even when they have majorities. The 2010 healthcare reform is the perfect example. Individual mandate to buy a private for-profit product that the government could provide for a lower price and it didn't even touch the anti-trust exemptions, Medicare Rx negotiation ban, pharmaceutical drug import ban, pharmaceutical profit patents, etc.
It's incremental because incremental is the only realistic option according to the people who own the political system. They need to make more money in the mean time or what's the point right?
