Conservatives want to move things to the right, towards fascism. Progressives want to move things to the left, toward socialism. Liberals want to maintain the status quo so long as it remains tenable. Neoliberals are Liberals in bad faith. They maintain the status quo in order to prevent moving to the left, but don’t do much to prevent rightward motion. When the populace wants to move left, Neoliberals exist to uselessly take up space that could be occupied by Progressives or even Liberals, and make leftward motion impossible while they wait for Conservatives to take charge again and resume the rightward trudge toward fascism. Neoliberals are the pawl on the ratchet.
I contend that this is deliberate and that we have been played.
I don’t understand what the difference is between liberals and neoliberals by the way you describe it. They’re the exact same crowd in real life as far as I can tell. In fact conservativism is basically liberalism + religion.
Conservatives want to move things to the right, towards fascism. Progressives want to move things to the left, toward socialism. Liberals want to maintain the status quo so long as it remains tenable. Neoliberals are Liberals in bad faith. They maintain the status quo in order to prevent moving to the left, but don’t do much to prevent rightward motion. When the populace wants to move left, Neoliberals exist to uselessly take up space that could be occupied by Progressives or even Liberals, and make leftward motion impossible while they wait for Conservatives to take charge again and resume the rightward trudge toward fascism. Neoliberals are the pawl on the ratchet.
I contend that this is deliberate and that we have been played.
I don’t understand what the difference is between liberals and neoliberals by the way you describe it. They’re the exact same crowd in real life as far as I can tell. In fact conservativism is basically liberalism + religion.