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Conservative Group Accidentally Reveals Its Secret Donors. Some of Them Are Liberal Orgs.
(www.thedailybeast.com)
this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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Surely no true Liberal would be so interested in maintaining the status quo for themselves and their wealthy friends.
You're missing the point... Liberals and progressives aren't the same thing. Trump started calling them that and the media glommed on.
Neolibs, which Donald Trump actually -is,- are the real threat to the rest of the world. They are the actual "Global Elite" that he goes on about.
Calling the left "Liberals" is just another case of accusing your enemies of doing the things that you're doing.
It's muddying the waters so it's harder for the average voter to know what's going on.
It frustrates me to no end that the term "neoliberalism" is a set of "hyper-capitalist" economic policies embraced and advanced by "conservative and right-libertarian organizations, political parties, and think tanks."
That's not "liberalism": "a political and moral philosophy based on the rights of the individual, liberty, consent of the governed, political equality, right to private property and equality before the law."
Here's a good article on the difference, for those interested. The pic used as the header is on point.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/07/24/the-rise-and-fall-of-neoliberalism