| "Free-market extremists" are just neoliberals and they're everywhere. They've infected both sides of politics, reducing most elections to 'red neoliberal' or 'blue neoliberal' that decide nothing except whose gross neoliberal friends get to gouge the taxpayers this term. This is backed by major media companies who are also all run by neoliberals. They put on a bit of theatre to pretend there is actually more than trivial differences and they'll rake in billions. They teach their kids neoliberalism in their exclusive schools, training them up to be the next generation of greedy sociopaths. They pay sleazy neoliberal P.R companies to undermine their critics online. They take over unions and turn them into yet another avenue for personal profit. All to the thunderous applause of the neoliberals running incredibly exploitative, near-sighted businesses that are rapidly ruining the world in search of ever greater profits. People need to start identifying this ideology and stripping the people who spout it from power. Money doesn't trickle down, no matter how much of it you stuff into a billionaires pocket. The 'free market' doesn't give people the power to end things like foreign-slavery. The powerful people that push these ideas know it. The rest of us need to know it too. |