Post-Election Thoughts

[Dill]

(11-09-2016, 12:44 PM)Bengalzona Wrote: An interesting article on the "Trump Revolution":

http://www.juancole.com/2016/11/rebelled-neoliberalism-literally.html

B-Zona, for the most part I think that article is spot on. 

Neoliberal policies have hurt the working class--but in revenge, they have voted FOR the party most responsible for them and AGAINST the Democrats. The Clinton's flirtation with neoliberalism, probably necessary to keep them in power during the '90s, has come back to haunt them.

Still the consequences will be tremendous for those who thought the Dems were the real problem.

There is an intervening irony. The one thing that helped working class whites with their increasing health problems was Obamacare. But that help was blunted by the Republican statehouses that refused to support it. So some of the rage of the workers about Obamacare was connived at by the GOP, which didn’t want them to have health care in the first place. (The GOP only really represents big business, which didn’t want to pay for it).

It will be interesting to see if the Trump administration really breaks left on a range of domestic issues like healthcare and the minimum wage, or Obama's agenda is scrapped for the Ryan/tea party agenda--Neoliberalism on steroids.  I am thinking probably the latter.