"…Right-wing parties in the Americas tend to subscribe to a radical form of extreme libertarianism far outside mainstream economic thought…."
Yup. I've been reading the story of the propaganda that made this denial of our collective existence for decades, but have only really appreciated the real coup in recent years. Essentially, the extremely wealthy (the duPonts, Harold Luhnow, J. Howard Pew, lots of others) have been paying to develop and spread this nonsense since the New Deal dared to gut them… er, tax them at more appropriate levels.
When the Central Bank of Sweden put a cherry on the crap cake with their paid-for "Nobel" Prize in Economics in 1968, all of the anti-Keynsian product of the corporate whores rose to the level of "science" and hand-waved away any criticism.
When your governing party is willing to let sociopolitical equity be a part of the conversation, amazingly general sociopolitical betterment occurs. When the governing party are racist Christo-Fascist Nazis, shit goes sideways. Who'da thunk?
"…Right-wing parties in the Americas tend to subscribe to a radical form of extreme libertarianism far outside mainstream economic thought…."
Yup. I've been reading the story of the propaganda that made this denial of our collective existence for decades, but have only really appreciated the real coup in recent years. Essentially, the extremely wealthy (the duPonts, Harold Luhnow, J. Howard Pew, lots of others) have been paying to develop and spread this nonsense since the New Deal dared to gut them… er, tax them at more appropriate levels.
When the Central Bank of Sweden put a cherry on the crap cake with their paid-for "Nobel" Prize in Economics in 1968, all of the anti-Keynsian product of the corporate whores rose to the level of "science" and hand-waved away any criticism.
Lesson: Propaganda Works.
When your governing party is willing to let sociopolitical equity be a part of the conversation, amazingly general sociopolitical betterment occurs. When the governing party are racist Christo-Fascist Nazis, shit goes sideways. Who'da thunk?
Musk, Thiel, Yarvin, and their ilk are just fine with with economic disaster for most in exchange for power for a few.
https://thucydidesii.substack.com/p/steal-from-the-poor-give-to-the-rich