Party Focus Question

[Derpist]

Social cultural. There's only one culturally sane party left in this country, though I don't really care for supply side economics.

[Derpist]

We should through this dichotomy out the window, along with vague polemic uses of the term "neoliberalism."

There's nothing vague about neoliberalism. It's a very specific, very definite set of political, economic and moral beliefs and assumptions with a very narrow base of advocates (although a plethora of useful idiots) and translating into very concrete policies.

A narrow base of advocates that apparently run most of our political and economic and media institutions. The entire Obama administration is proof that those advocates matter.

[Derpist]

We should through this dichotomy out the window, along with vague polemic uses of the term "neoliberalism."

There's nothing vague about neoliberalism. It's a very specific, very definite set of political, economic and moral beliefs and assumptions with a very narrow base of advocates (although a plethora of useful idiots) and translating into very concrete policies.

That's a rather vague description for something so specific.

The term over the decades has meant social market ordoliberalism, been used as a broad category including both Austrian and Chicago schools - among others, a synonym for 'Third Way' Blairites and New Democrats , and now whatever this thing is that you are talking about. The term is more confusing than enlightening.

I'd argue that the Austrian/Chicago schools have almost no real life influence, so we're really talking about Blairism, which is the dominant ideology of Davos, Bilderberg, etc.