Neoliberal
Woke Rainbow Capitalism (nerds)
Trains, free trade, and open borders; trans rights and taco trucks on every corner. Please read the sidebar for more information.
Community Bookmarks
- FAQs
- Latest discussion thread: September 2024
- US Presidential Election 270 to Win Interactive Map
- US Presidential Election 538 Megathread
Rules:
1. Instance Terms of Service
Comply with the Lemmy.world terms of service.
2. Civility
Refrain from name-calling, slapfights, hostility, doxxing, or any uncivil behavior that derails the quality of the conversation.
A specific one of importance you might not generally expect on Lemmy or the wider fediverse, and enforced to further community health, is Do not engage in excessive partisanship.
3. Bigotry
Bigotry of any kind will be sanctioned harshly.
4. Unconstructive Engagement
Do not post with the intent to provoke, mischaracterize, or troll other users rather than meaningfully contributing to the conversation. Don't disrupt serious discussions. Bad opinions are not automatically unconstructive.
Do not reflexively downvote just because someone has a different opinion.
Also, as a general disclaimer, keep in mind that votes on posts and comments are discoverable as they federate with other instances and that is outside the control of this community.
5. Off-topic Comments
Comments on submissions should substantively address the topic of submission.
6. Glorifying Violence
Do not advocate or encourage violence either seriously or jokingly. Do not glorify oppressive/autocratic regimes.
7. Brigading
Refrain from brigading other communities or fediverse instances, or coming from another community or fediverse instance and brigading this community. Links within the community are encouraged provided no other rules are broken.
8. Off-topic, Meta, or Duplicate Post
Submissions should be relevant to public policy or political theory. Meta posts should be posted to the discussion thread. Generally avoid editorializing submission titles.
9. Submission Quality
Low-quality or irrelevant submissions will be removed at mod discretion. This applies in particular to low-quality or repetitive memes.
10. Tag Communities and/or Users Wisely
Do not tag communities and/or users to troll, spam, or brigade.
11. Bonk-Posting/Sexual Content
Go be horny somewhere else. Do not post inappropriate content of a sexual nature. Both SFW and NSFW content can qualify. Repeat infringements can lead to bans.
12. Toxic Nationalism/Regionalism
Refrain from condemning countries and regions or their inhabitants at-large in response to political developments, mocking people for their nationality or region, or advocating for colonialism or imperialism.
Other Fediverse Communities:
We in c/Neoliberal support:
- Free trade and competitive markets
- Immigration
- YIMBYism – ‘yes in my backyard’-ism
- Carbon taxes
- Internationalism and supranational governance – e.g. the EU, UN, NATO, IMF
- LGBTQ+ rights
- Democracy, human rights, civil liberties and due process
Neoliberals can be found in many political parties and we are not dogmatic supporters of specific parties. But we tend to find ourselves agreeing more often with parties that espouse liberal values, internationalism and centrist economics, such as the Democrats in the US, Liberal Democrats in the UK, FDP in Germany, Renaissance/MoDem in France, the Liberal Party in Canada, and so on.
Further Reading:
- I’m a Neoliberal. Maybe You Are Too.
- The Neoliberal Mind
- Neo-Liberalism and its Prospects
- Neoliberalism: the Genesis of a Political Swear Word
News sources:
Here are some suggested news sources that we like and tend to find reliable. Please note that posts and threads are not at all limited to these sources!--
view the rest of the comments
General consensus seems to be(among what's left of the Swing Voters and Moderates, not a large group) is that Harris won the debate, showed she was professional and a capable speaker, and Trump made a fool of himself in the back half and lied chronically in the middle. Harris won, that was what people hoped for.
However, Harris staggered a bit the first 15 minutes before Trump got knocked off balance, and she didn't really do a great job of explaining policy on her more controversial issues or directly addressing the flip flopping allegations(which could have been a problem, but by that point Trump was ticked off and lashed out emotionally instead of going in for the kill). Trump lost, but both the moderates and the betting markets suggest it's not a Biden June level loss. The market loss was 4 points instead of 5 and it's recovering quicker, there isn't the same mass panic you saw after that on the Republican side, it's more subdued panic.
Trump lost, but not campaign endingly so. Harris won, but she didn't do the best job of explaining her policies which is the number 1 concern of swing voters. But also Trump didn't capitalize on this, Harris knocked him off his game early and got him panicking so he couldn't counter attack on those points when they came up.
I have my doubts Trump is going to go again, Harris knows how to push his buttons and get him off course before any of her more constroversial opinions come up. Trump can't afford another debate loss. Harris probably wants to avoid dealing with Vance directly though, I think he could bite his tongue long enough to go at it more directly. Leave him to Walz, Walz doesn't have that baggage.
Also it'll shore up polling a bit, added to by the Swift thing. Probably a good idea for them as the Honeymoon period(which a lot of people were starting to write off as non-existent or a conservative lie or something to that extent) did seemingly end in the week leading up to the debate. Harris slumped and her lead shrunk.
It's sort of a game of chicken at this point. Harris doesn't have time to fully pace a slow burn campaign or bury policy flips deep enough back in the past to commit to a classical strategy. Trump's been in the campaign longer and COULD sit out and try to let Harris slump. but her higher baseline and long honeymoon made that too risky. Harris won last night, she knocked Trump off his game before he had to chance to sink his teeth into the flipflopping. Does Trump risk a second run and hope he can hold his cool until she exposes herself or dodges a question or does he sit it out again and wait for this polling spike to fade by October? A loss in an October debate could be disasterous as it's right before the election and there's no time for a bump to cool down. A minor Trump win could shore up numbers at the last second. Sitting it out depends on what Harris does, which has been a mixed bag, but it puts the ball fully in her court to go on the offensive.
Harris would absolutely win in a full length campaign season, but there's too little time for that and that creates weak spots. Weak spots Trump can exploit, but due to his own weak spots going for it is risky and last night Harris won that gamble.
(Oh and Harris didn't score a buzzword on the level of "I'm Speaking" or "Will you Shut up Man?". Best we've got for a Dean Scream type Anti-Line is Trump's "I have a concept of a plan", which while dumb isn't 'We beat Medicare' tier. Sad media world, but that's an important thing to note)