Is neoliberalism failing or experiencing a resurgence?

Kento

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Surfdog said:
Ya, I know Trump is more left of center in some aspects, but right in many others and portrayed as extreme right. He's all over the map from one day to the next. But there's something a bit too fishy in his whole approach for my tastes.

In fact, I think he criss-crosses that mystical border-line between far right and far left almost daily, occasionally stopping by the center to say Hi.
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hal9000

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Surfdog said:
Ya, I know Trump is more left of center in some aspects, but right in many others and portrayed as extreme right. He's all over the map from one day to the next. But there's something a bit too fishy in his whole approach for my tastes.

In fact, I think he criss-crosses that mystical border-line between far right and far left almost daily, occasionally stopping by the center to say Hi.

[video:youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQCU36pkH7c[/video]
 

FecalFace

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Surfdog said:
I get this feeling that Hillary and Trump reside next to each other in that mystical cross-over point where extreme left and extreme right meet.
Hilary is extreme left? You are out of your mind.
 

Surfdog

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FecalFace said:
Surfdog said:
I get this feeling that Hillary and Trump reside next to each other in that mystical cross-over point where extreme left and extreme right meet.
Hilary is extreme left? You are out of your mind.
Depends on her audience at the time. At least with Bernie, you know you're getting extreme left, and he's proud of it. Hillary really dreams of being a far leftist, but she knows where the big donor $$$ are, at it ain't with the far leftys, but she'll hedge and hint when she has to.

Like Trump, she will patronize whatever audience she's in front of. Hell, that's all politicians, but Hillary and Trump are glaring examples of appeasement to who-ever writes the biggest checks, and proud of it. Problem is, Hill wants to be like Bill, but no chance in hell of that kind of worship from the left. She's doubled down on deception instead.
 

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Surfdog said:
FecalFace said:
Surfdog said:
I get this feeling that Hillary and Trump reside next to each other in that mystical cross-over point where extreme left and extreme right meet.
Hilary is extreme left? You are out of your mind.
Depends on her audience at the time. At least with Bernie, you know you're getting extreme left, and he's proud of it. Hillary really dreams of being a far leftist, but she knows where the big donor $$$ are, at it ain't with the far leftys, but she'll hedge and hint when she has to.

Like Trump, she will patronize whatever audience she's in front of. Hell, that's all politicians, but Hillary and Trump are glaring examples of appeasement to who-ever writes the biggest checks, and proud of it. Problem is, Hill wants to be like Bill, but no chance in hell of that kind of worship from the left. She's doubled down on deception instead.

Left is communism , fascism is right.

Trump is closer to fascist than Bernie is to Communist.
 

Ifallalot

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No one is extreme left in this country. Bernie would be center in Europe, while all the rest, including Hilary, are just left of fascists.

 

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Autoprax said:
FecalFace said:
GromsDad said:
FecalFace said:
GromsDad said:
Hillary is a POS. Nothing more. Nothing less. We should all be able to agree on that.
We do. How about Trump? Can we agree that he's a POS?
I'm not a fan of Trump and won't vote for him but I wouldn't put him in the POS category.
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He's in the drop of cum category?

:roflmao:

I'd probably put him in the schmegma category
 

Surfdog

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SharkBoy said:
Surfdog said:
FecalFace said:
Surfdog said:
I get this feeling that Hillary and Trump reside next to each other in that mystical cross-over point where extreme left and extreme right meet.
Hilary is extreme left? You are out of your mind.
Depends on her audience at the time. At least with Bernie, you know you're getting extreme left, and he's proud of it. Hillary really dreams of being a far leftist, but she knows where the big donor $$$ are, at it ain't with the far leftys, but she'll hedge and hint when she has to.

Like Trump, she will patronize whatever audience she's in front of. Hell, that's all politicians, but Hillary and Trump are glaring examples of appeasement to who-ever writes the biggest checks, and proud of it. Problem is, Hill wants to be like Bill, but no chance in hell of that kind of worship from the left. She's doubled down on deception instead.

Left is communism , fascism is right.

Trump is closer to fascist than Bernie is to Communist.
Trump is no closer to fascism than Bernie is to communism. Trump talks big, but is a closet social progressive, with a econo-conservative banner. He knows how to pander to an angry audience. Just like Hillary is much more socialist than most dems want to admit. She panders to the mushy-middle dems, because she knows she needs their support to win.

Sanders and Cruz both are at least honest about where they stand. Left and Right, fairly away from center, but within arms reach when they have to be.
 

GDaddy

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Forget left vs right. That's rapidly become an obsolete comparison. A distinction without a difference.

If Trump is an authoritarian then who among the politicians would be his opposing counterpart?

 

Ifallalot

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GDaddy said:
Forget left vs right. That's rapidly become an obsolete comparison. A distinction without a difference.

If Trump is an authoritarian then who among the politicians would be his opposing counterpart?
Its a whole spectrum with many planes and its better that way. Even the comparison between authoritarian and libertarian still needs to take into account the economic theories of that person