A neoliberal government doesn’t seek legitimacy in the eyes of the voters by improving their standard of living. Instead, it offers to protect them from unseen, diffuse, deathly and global threats.
Terrorism, pandemics, global warming, disinformation. The funny thing is that this is precisely the kind of threat that a national government can do absolutely nothing about. They exist beyond national borders and cross them easily.
We are supposed to be so grateful for the promise of protection from these unseen dangers that we’d happily agree to the drop in our standard of living. It’s a bad bargain but we agree to it because we are scared.
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The same people have worked very hard to make us scared of these supposed threats. Not everyone buys it though.
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