• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You might be able to find an article somewhere, but billionaires own all the media, so it doesn’t get talked about much.

    But look at the rise of American neoliberalism.

    In the 1990s a wing of the Democratic party started pushing the same economic policy as republicans. To differentiate the republicans started becoming more extreme. And the neoliberals kept going more “conservative” economically to win over republicans. Which didn’t really work, but no matter what happened the party leaders would claim it’s because they hadn’t moved far enough right economically.

    The result is what we see today.

    The neoliberals wing has changed their labels a couple of times, but are still doing the same shit.

    And voters are left voting against their own economic interests every election, because there’s simply no other option.

    Even abstaining isn’t an option, because republicans are slightly worse on economic policy, and absolutely batshit on social policy. Which is why voter turnout is so low.

    • SokathHisEyesOpen@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      You might be able to find an article somewhere, but billionaires own all the media, so it doesn’t get talked about much.

      They also own the search engines that would show the thousands of private blog articles that are talking about it, so you’ll be hard pressed to find them.