New ideas and action article: Like Clockwork, The Legacy of Obama

Submitted by syndicalist on January 25, 2017

Like Clockwork, The Legacy of Obama

By Bryer C. Sousa

It’s almost like clockwork. Since 1979 – the birth of neoliberalism (not the conception of neoliberalism, for its ideological roots may be traced back to the 1938 Walter Lippmann Colloquium as well as the 1947 Mont Pèlerin Society gathering) – the working class has been inundated with our elite’s overbearing adherence to a set of principles centered upon the belief that markets know best and therefore should virtually be free to govern us. Alongside the religious frenzy concerning the Chicago School of economic thought, the citizenry of the United States was and remains forced to witness the hollowing out of any sense of class mobility and the development of a political class minted from two sides of the same coin, the coin being that of strictly business interests.

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January 25, 2017