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by JasserInicide 481 days ago
30+ years ago, Christian thought was the dominant force in society. You wanted to piss off your elders and society? Say something bad about Christianity (I should know, I was there front-and-center). Current year in many places of the country, the pendulum has now swung left and there's this new neo-liberal order. You want to piss off society now? Say something bad about that. And that's precisely why movements like the alt-right have risen to the heights they are at now.

You've probably heard phrases being thrown around online like "conservative is the new punk"; while mostly silly, there is a nugget of truth to them.
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jghn 481 days ago
> 30+ years ago, Christian thought was the dominant force in society.

Was around back then. While there's a lower percentage of professed Christians in the USA now than there was then, the power wielded by the evangelical/Christian Nationalist crowd has only grown.

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happymellon 481 days ago
> conservative is the new punk

I've not heard that, but it doesn't surprise me. Nazis have been trying to pretend what they are doing is very punk and rebellious rather than the bootlicking, racist, leader worship that it really is.

Dead Kennedys said it best with Nazi Punks Fuck Off.

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TransAtlToonz 481 days ago
The fact that "neoliberalism" is considered left should seriously concern anyone who has opened a history book.
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throw_m239339 481 days ago
> The fact that "neoliberalism" is considered left should seriously concern anyone who has opened a history book.

The problem is with the word liberalism in US. For Europeans: Liberalism == right wing...

I guess it has taken a more cultural sense in US, where US liberalism is more about morals than economics (drugs, sex, gender, immigration...) and became a synonym for progressive, as opposed to conservatism and its pseudo religious aspects.

Neo-liberalism clearly has a negative connotation in Europe, at least politically, it is synonym of ultra capitalism.

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TransAtlToonz 481 days ago
> where US liberalism is more about morals than economics

Unmooring politics from the economic concerns of the voter (or of the person who lives here if voting isn't a question) rarely bodes well for the long-term health of the state.

There are exceptions of course—North Korea, perhaps?

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