If you replace all instances of "neoliberalism" w/"capitalism", how do you distinguish e.g. the Norwegian economy from that of the US?
(Discounting Norway's short flirts w/deregulation now and in the 90s)
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I don't quite understand the question. Norway is Norway, the US is the US. If Norway still has some measure of national sovereignty, it maybe means that the capitalists haven't gotten around to it yet. You could maybe describe Norway as relatively protectionist, isolationist, etc
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Norway is ultracapitalist, owns the largest sovereign wealth fund in existence, 1.3% of world stocks, is antifragile wrt recessions.
The US is one of the few richer countries pr. capita, but does not have:
- clean air
- universal health care
- job security
- good infrastructure
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Yes. I'm aware. And your issue is where?
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If you take issue with what I'm saying, feel free to give specifics.
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Yes, "everywhere" is probably hyperbole.
Kneejerk sounds neat when you say it, but my experiences with US culture and imperialism is not at all limited/local to the US.
Pretty annoyed at Norwegian support for it, too, but most European countries are effectively client states.
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Yeah.
If he wasn't such a fascist-baiting wannabe oligarch, I'd have preferred him to Clinton, from a foreigner's perspective.
Of course, he caved and mostly went down a similar route for foreign policy in the end, but stuff like Korea talks has been interesting to see unfold.
That said, my previous experience of the US was my entire family being detained as, quote, "possible terror suspects" over a weeks-old passport policy change. :)
Not hankering to go back any time soon.
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