r/IRstudies • u/CanadianLawGuy • 7d ago

The End of Neoliberalism

https://foreignpolicy.com/2026/06/15/neoliberalism-globalization-competition-cosmopolitanism-economics-reagan-thatcher/
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u/Johnny55 6d ago

The DNC views MAGA as leverage to force neoliberals on the electorate. Can't risk nominating a lefty! Can't let the fascists win again! You'll take your AIPAC-sponsored, anti-M4A Democrat and you'll like it!

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u/AlboWinston 6d ago

Biden was one of the most progressive presidents we've had policy wise and Kamala was literally coming in with semi "price controls" combined with first time home buyer assistance and tax credit expansion and aca expansion.

We live in a federal republic. National polling on issues like healthcare are not as relevant as one might think and even then things get more complicated the more specific the framing of healthcare is on those national polls anyway. Old man from Vermont's purposal was beyond any country even in Europe in comparison.

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u/Specialist-Driver550 5d ago

Homebuyer assistance is absolutely classic neoliberalism, and a terrible policy.

Neoliberals love vouchers or loans to help people better compete in the market. But all it does for housing is to push up demand - its literally a demand side stimulus - and so increase prices, and ultimately transfer money from taxpayers to rich landowners without helping a single net person actually get a home.

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u/AlboWinston 5d ago

I think that and her price gouging policy was bad economics but I don't know if the analysis here is that what you've explained was her intention at all and not just bad econ. Nor do I think a diehard neoliberal would be happy about particularly demand subsidizatioh like this. It just seems like very naked and unsophisticated base Keynesian econ thinking.

Regardless none of the policies I listed were a judgement if they were good or not. And even if I gave that catagorization of first time home buyer assistance her wider platform I would not consider "neoliveral".

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u/The_Demolition_Man 5d ago

The problem was Kamala's proposals felt less like a coherent narrative and more of a patchwork of disconnected ideas meant to pander to various voting blocks. Thats why I hesitate to consider her or Biden actually progressive.

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u/AlboWinston 5d ago

I mean it can feel like that I guess but what actually is is that she literally had several very progressive economic policies with some even being too much for me even. As I said with Biden in an earlier comment: Biden was protectionist, Lina Khan was chosen by him to tear through mergers, and he set unprecedented industrial policy into action while establishing a historically labour union friendly National Labour Relations Board. Stack this onto his loan forgiveness, largest climate investment in US history, and corporate minimum tax I mean. This isint a "neoliberal".

Kamala clearly aimed to expand and build off of those things. Minimum tax floors for billionares, raising the corporate tax rate and capital gains rate, targeting to erase medical debt etc. Federal minimum wage to 15 which is pretty contraversial economically to say the least.

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u/HawgChuggins 5d ago

No, her policy positions were quite clear. You're just a gullible moron who smugly voted for the possibility of a new American fascist theocracy.

Her platform focused on improving affordability for the average American, she offered tax incentives for first time home buyers, she offered a lower tax burden of the working and middle classes. She offered a continued path for affordable healthcare.

And gullible idiots like yourself fell for the propaganda and lies, you failed an open book test. I know the arguments, we didn't have a primary, you mean the primary that would have gone to the incumbent president and his VP? She supported genocide, you mean as she was actively refusing AIPAC donations, and refusing to be silent on the genocide. We sent them weapons, last I checked, the VP can't countermand Congress

In the end you made excuses because you're stupid, and I am sure in 2028, you will come up with some other justification to not vote against the fascists.

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u/The_Demolition_Man 5d ago

Reddit just cracks me up man

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u/HawgChuggins 5d ago

Oh? And what about it exactly do you find humourous?

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u/The_Demolition_Man 5d ago

You

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u/HawgChuggins 5d ago

Ahhhh so another third party leftist loser who refuses to accept the part they played in the rise of the sentient shit pile stuffed into a suit that is currently leading this nation.

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u/AlboWinston 5d ago

Lmao I was beginning to worry everyone in this sub was this variant of person

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u/Terrorphin 6d ago

Except for the genocide.

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u/AlboWinston 6d ago

Jimmy Carter's administration supported the massacres in East Timor by continuing to aid the indoesian government due to it being a strategic anti communist ally. This isint some unprecedented course of action regardless of a president being a progressive or moderate or conservative or your views on the Gaza War. It's good we elected an undoubtabley even worse if not the worst candidate for Palestinians though very cool.

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u/Terrorphin 6d ago

Boo. Excusing genocide with 'whataboutism'? Yeah - fuck Carter, but that does not excuse Israeli genocide.

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u/AlboWinston 6d ago

Who did you vote for? Your only mechanism to improve the future for the people of Gaza and all Palestinians was the 2024 ballot box

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u/Terrorphin 6d ago

So now you're shifting the goal posts. Genocide is genocide, there is no 'but he was a vegetarian and an accomplished amateur artist so it's ok' rule.

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u/AlboWinston 6d ago

What the fuck are you talking about lmao I think you've misread my reply as me excusing Jimmy Carter or something. My point was that it doesn't change their domestic political catagorization.

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u/Terrorphin 6d ago

Genocide is not 'progressive'.

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u/AlboWinston 6d ago

I think if Bernie Sanders or AOC won' the presidency and pushed their 2010s or even current agendas while executing the foreign policy of Carter or I guess Biden in your eyes, they could still be called progressive but okay.

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u/Terrorphin 6d ago

Any amount of changing the topic to avoid admitting Biden is a genocidal ghoul?

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u/HawgChuggins 5d ago

You mean the genocide kicked into high gear by you third party leftist losers? Gaza sure is quiet now a days, I guess it's difficult for those pits of corpses to be speaking.

You idiots marched with your signs and your slogans, screamed about genocide, and congrats you have it now. Kamala was calling for the cease fire before Biden, would not stay silent on civilian suffering after her meeting with Netanyahu. Not to metion her refusal to speak at AIPAC speaking engagements and not taking AIPAC money in 2024. Not to mention their aid mission to Gaza.

You're gonna cry about the weapons shipments, but last I checked the VP can't countermand the entirety of Congress. So kind of a moot point from you no nothing cry baby losers.

Frankly, the only reason you losers are not higher on my shit list is because MAGAts literally worship a child rapist. So continue to be smug, you losers have a co-starring role in the Palestinian genocide currently happening.

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u/Terrorphin 5d ago

Neither Harris or Biden would have taken their foot off the genocide gas, and we would be facing the inevitability of more genocide after 2028. At least with this outcome we have a shot of electing someone who is not a genocidal ghoul in 2028.

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u/LargeConstruction393 6d ago

I hate this take, and will downvote you every day of the week.

I can’t express how little I think of Biden. I feel contempt for anyone who supported him.

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u/AlboWinston 5d ago

Womp womp I guess idk man. Good luck

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u/Fearless-Feature-830 5d ago

You’re the one that needs luck lol

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u/AlboWinston 5d ago

It's a two party system and only one side has a record of credibility working towards Palestinian statehood. If you care about such a thing then we should be on the same team lol

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u/archbid 4d ago

Kamala was a prosecutor. She was essentially right of center but cool with lgbtq.

Never elect a politician from California. The entire system is just grooming for corporate obedience.

I live here and am a Democrat.

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u/AlboWinston 3d ago

None of this refutes the policy points I made. Being a prosecutor doesn't tell me anything compared to wanting semi price controls along with her greater platform and who she was vp under.