- 14 May 2019 22:35
#15004713
I noticed that Trump's buddy, Victor Orban, has called himself an "illiberal democrat." The purpose of modern liberalism since Reagan/Thatcher seems to be the destruction of every illusion of the populations it governs. It has been remarkably successful in this regard. It destroyed the civil verities of liberal capitalism, including the sanctity of capitalism itself. Many on the right are, like Tucker Carlson, jumping on the anti-capitalist bandwagon. Frank Luntz is telling his GOP clients to stop defending "capitalism" and instead talk about "freedom."
Strange times, indeed.
Potemkin wrote:Words such as "conservative" or "liberal" long ago lost their meaning, jimjam. Nowadays, "conservatives" spend money like drunken sailors on shore leave, and just borrow it from their unborn grandkids rather than raise taxes here and now. And "liberals" have become the most intolerant illiberal Puritans since Oliver Cromwell.
I tell you, we live in strange times jimjam....
I noticed that Trump's buddy, Victor Orban, has called himself an "illiberal democrat." The purpose of modern liberalism since Reagan/Thatcher seems to be the destruction of every illusion of the populations it governs. It has been remarkably successful in this regard. It destroyed the civil verities of liberal capitalism, including the sanctity of capitalism itself. Many on the right are, like Tucker Carlson, jumping on the anti-capitalist bandwagon. Frank Luntz is telling his GOP clients to stop defending "capitalism" and instead talk about "freedom."
Strange times, indeed.
The old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born: now is the time of monsters. -Antonio Gramsci