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Re:California Is Making Liberals Squirm by bustin on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:07PM (#26109705)
This is confusing to me... I believe that neo-liberalism is fundamentally making decisions according to evidence to benefit our society regardless of tradition / religion / who said it. To me, that openness to solutions puts it opposite of many present-day conservatives who value tradition, existing power structures, historical norms, and therefore makes it a "left" ideology.

In my understanding a neo-liberal government is a fan of unblocking housing development, evidence based decision making w.r.t. pandemic responses, and police encounters. I would personally call governments in many parts of the Bay traditionally conservative as they are trying to protect what it was 50 years ago.

What does Neo-liberalism mean to you?

edits: lots of things, sorry if that confuses any responders...

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Re:California Is Making Liberals Squirm by DenisM on Thursday February 11, 2021 @10:12PM (#26110378)
You're mixing up liberalism with neoliberalism.

Neoliberalism is contemporarily used to refer to market-oriented reform policies such as "eliminating price controls, deregulating capital markets, lowering trade barriers" and reducing, especially through privatization and austerity, state influence in the economy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#:~:text=Neoliber....

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Re:California Is Making Liberals Squirm by solosoyokaze on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:13PM (#26109733)
To me it's a pro-capitalist, pro-globalist, quasi-neo-colonialist ideology. It's meant to spread modernization through corporate capitalism [1].

I think the quintessential neo-liberal group is the Trilateral Commission [2], which many high audience mainstream media talking heads are members.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#United_States

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trilateral_Commission

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Re:California Is Making Liberals Squirm by naebother on Thursday February 11, 2021 @08:22PM (#26109782)
> What does Neo-liberalism mean to you?

"Free" markets will solve everything. Muh private sector. Change is inevitable, so get with the program grandpa.

That's my takeaway.

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