i hope that one day people stop caring about what david brooks has to say
If Sanders did win the nomination Brooks would go right back to fear mongering though. He’s using him as a cudgel because he has a beef with the Democratic party and Sanders is now too old to run again. He’s just a dumbass.
And he tells the stupidest lies. https://newrepublic.com/post/175705/david-brooks-78-airport-meal-fact-check
He is not a liberal, he’s the end of liberalism.
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Watching David Brooks, of all people, develop more introspection and self-awareness than the entire Democratic party leadership has been a real trip.
I know nothing of his work, but my immediate assumption is that he’s just a contrarian asshole that has no actual principles.
In media (as in politics), this kind of thing is almost always a product of cynical expediency rather than sincere introspection.
I like how he completely misses the point even now. We don’t need to end liberalism but we absolutely do need to tax and regulate.
We don’t need to end liberalism but we absolutely do need to tax and regulate.
Definitely need both. Neoliberalism is a center right to right wing ideology that inherently favors moneyed interests and the status quo over workers and progress.
Having it as the leftmost ideology of only two political parties with real influence is lunacy.
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Taxes and regulations are bandaid solution to capitalism.
As we’ve all seen, those with wealth use it to hide it away from taxes and to bribe for relaxed regulations or regulations to stop competitors appearing.
Liberalism and any other capitalist model need to go.
Look, I’m not going to defend capitalism, but
As we’ve all seen, those with wealth use it to hide it away from taxes and to bribe for relaxed regulations or regulations to stop competitors appearing.
Is not a problem inherent to capitalism. All of that stems from human greed, which you’re going to have no matter what economic system you try to implement. The solution is to have actual enforcement of your regulatory guardrails.
I don’t see capitalism ending in the US during our lifetimes so I’ll take any improvement I can get
