BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 03/05/2025they don't win at all, you're just spitting platitudes ignorant of reality because you're old and it feels right 010
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024you ignored sur didn't respond to the crux of my argument and forced me to educate you on basic terminology so you could play semantic games all because you're having a fit your idols got criticized for their obvious flaws. If the content is too high level you can't follow class that's not my fault. 010
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I'm sorry, I didn't see your initial post. I was trying to find a source for you, I didn't realize you were this committed to being dumb 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Well I figured maybe a contemporary article from a leading neokeynesian would interest you but yeah you seem pretty content to be ignorant. I tried really hard to take you seriously but I guess a status quo "nothing is wrong" liberal probably was never going to be an intellectual powerhouse 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I'm not talking about Biden, I don't think he is a neoliberal, but what do you mean Clinton isn't seen as an architect for modern neoliberalism?! papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... in your efforts to shield the democrats from any criticism you've completely divorced yourself from reality, christpapers.ssrn.comWas the Clinton Administration Neoliberal?This paper offers a comprehensive consideration of the economic policies of the administration of President William Jefferson Clinton (1993-2001) with regard to 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Obamas stimulus was widely scene as a return to Keynes but in many ways was just the new order being confronted with reality, he rhetorically and in other policy such as the ACA remained committed to neoliberalism. heres a contemporary article from krugman archive.nytimes.com/krugman.blog...archive.nytimes.comThe Obama-Keynes MysteryMaybe it’s personal. 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Some are, the people I listed and the Democratic party more broadly are not. Clinton pioneered free trade and neoliberal organizations like the WTO while continuing on the path of privatization and is seen as the architect of the neoliberal order from the 90s to the 10s 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024this isn't Marx brother, that entry is extremely sympathetic to neoliberal ideology lol. In your performative anger at me, you've become completely disconnected from reality. You ascribe positions to me I don't hold and cannot accurately describe your own politics or the politics of your party. 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024Commie take? What other take is there on neoliberalism lmao plato.stanford.edu/entries/neol... you're a funny guy, you know whatplato.stanford.edu Neoliberalism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I'd argue however in *spite* of my communism I'm much more pro democracy than you are because I at least care about listening to the electorate instead of pontificating from on high and telling them what they must accept or threatening them with fascism. 000
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024anti leadership, sure. They're incompetent and keep losing because of their pride and ignorance to the feelings of the country; giving the worst candidate in history an easy layup because people obviously know things are bad and the DNC gaslights them while the Republicans blame minorities. 000
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I don't read the intercept and I'm pro free trade, you keep swinging and missing because you'd rather get emotional than think for two seconds. Free trade and Privatization are *the* cornerstones of neoliberalism, the fact that you don't understand even this tells me you're the one projecting lol 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024I'm a populist, a socialist, and a progressive these terms are also not exclusive to one another and I am also a registered Democrat. Your goofy cult like tendency to treat criticism of the dems as a personal attack + idolization and hero worship of politicians are why people compare you to MAGA. 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024You're just as out of touch as a trumper lol. They're American liberals and free trade neoliberals. These terms aren't exclusive and in fact synonymous the world over except the US where our terminology is borked because of the two party system and propaganda. 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024so are Clinton and Obama! Like, the Democratic party is adverse to even mild social democracy outside of progressives. On this, both parties were in lock step until Trump. You're denying both history and definitions in ignoring the historic neoliberal consensus. You BlueMAGA types are sure strange 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024you literally are a neoliberal! you don't even know what these words mean! Unless you're insinuating you're some kind of social democrat lol 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024you're a joke and a fossil, you use populist as a slur when really it means people ready to accept reality lol. neoliberal do nothingism is dead, as your party will be if they refuse to serve their base and the average American instead of corporate sponsors 100
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024all your replies read more like a bot than anything you've replied to, you odd lil freak lol 000
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 17/12/2024you're right, obviously they should change absolutely nothing. do nothing to change the status quo, challenge their donors, or work on their messaging and narratives. Nope, let's all just say there's nothing we can do the country is too bigoted while we cede every battle to the right 110
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BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 08/12/2024They also are some of the most secular countries globally with high rates of atheism and agnosticism. 010
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024And I'm sorry that morality and reality are in conflict and that morals *weren't* enough. But people are dumb and won't show up unless the vibes are right. The Dem party has to become left populist and meet the voters where they're at. We have to signal great change and then do it. 2/2 010
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024We can fight and win, even if there aren't elections again. but we have to move beyond "liberal institutionalism". The idea that the only power we have is at the ballot box, and that elections are just something we show up for and go back to brunch mimosas, some politician or rule will save us. 1/2 110
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024So you don't want to win, you just want to be upset. That's fair, take the time for that. But you have to know just being mad at the electorate and not changing strategy won't change anything right? You know that on some level? 110
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Liberal institutionalism is just hard countered by fascism, I'm sorry. Grieve how you like but for now it's a dead project. It's not enough because of the tactics used. So you have to ask yourself, do you want to win or not? 110
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Choosing to fail. Trump wins because he activates people who don't normally show up. Dems could do that too but they'd have to offer a meaningful populist message and then act on it. 120
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 02/12/2024But will you try anything different when the time comes to rebuild? Or will you offer status quo tinkering around the edges? Will you push for change to beat fascism or will you keep making excuses for rich politicians who listen to an out of touch consultancy class? 000
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 01/12/2024The DNC didn't reject them, they openly embraced them and lost their base and the left of the party as a result 120
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 01/12/2024I get that you're having an emotional reaction but you realize this is choosing to fail? Like, getting mad at the voters fot not just giving you their vote is childish and why you'll lose forever. Abandon policy wonkery and accept the electorate you have. all that matters is vibes. 200
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 01/12/2024you're so right, blame the electorate and not the dnc leadership for failing to energize those people. Maybe pivot to the right by throwing migrants and queer people further under the bus. this will surely win us elections later on. When are you going to actually get mad at the decision makers? 000
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 01/12/2024Am I so out of touch? No... it's the voters who are wrong! You can keep blaming the voters for the dems continually shifting to the right to pick up the like 20 never trump Republicans or you can realize that you need to get the votes of the people who stayed home 120
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 30/11/2024I understand your worldview can't comprehend this but you're talking to a socialist not a conservative. You're the conservative in this scenario... 110
BrenOfGaul @brenofgaul.bsky.social · 19/11/2024not because they aren't winning issues but because the legislature is anti democracy and was sick of progressive issues winning through ballot measures 000
