The economy doesn’t decide everything but it does decide a lot. Neoliberal economic principles (deregulation, mass migration, weakening of the nation-state, globalization) will inevitably bring into existence the neoliberal selfhood. People adopt the shape of capital and become rootless, movable, unattached and valuing freedom and choice above everything else. A neoliberal who expresses conservative cultural beliefs always brings about the destruction of conservative culture. There is no conservative culture, no family, no community, no permanence or stability in the neoliberal economy.
Reagan is the perfect example of this neoliberal sleight of hand. He said culturally conservative things and turned California mega liberal for generations to come because he was a neoliberal open-border fanatic.
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Japan recovered from atom bombs. California still hasn’t recovered from Reagan.
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Stringer, you aced it as usual !
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True.
He was solid on Russia and the Soviets, m
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Reagan accepted no-fault divorce, allowing the extinguishment of the one vow that allowed the creation of western civilization. But to give him credit, he was man enough later to publicly admitted that he had stepped on his dick big time ;-D
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