This is, of course, the exact opposite of what happened, but whatever. Musk's gonna Musk.
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Feels like linear analysis always relies on cherry-picking of issues.
Depending on which lens you apply and to which topics, the entirety of society could be said to have moved left, right, up, down, in opposite-colored spirals...
Except usury, which is always up, up, up.
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There's been a fair bit of analysis done on this. On most metrics US society has moved right, and even the left has moved right. There are always outliers, of course, but that's the general trend and where the mass of the "left" and "right" are.
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One of the most legible things about this whole debate is the way that "left" and "right" are constantly framed as social issues, while the economic trends are almost totally ignored.
US has been turbocharging right in the dimensions of usury and financialization for decades.
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not just the US. You can see the same thing in most Western societies, just starting from a better place, or moving somewhat slower, or both. Macron just got elected on a promise of increasing the retirement age by 3 years.
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Well, yes, try to impose nationalist or protectionist policies in any EU country and watch yourself and your family get GLADIO'd out of existence extra pronto.
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It's not just about that. Most of your rulers desperately believe in neoliberalism. They mostly aren't being forced to be internationalist technocratic neoliberal assholes, it's their religion (there are exceptions, but they are exceptions.)
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Yes, but, this is just people being products of their environment.
Elites are carefully cultivated for ideological consistency. Exceptions are pruned, mercilessly.
In the old Chomskian sense of manufactured consent, they would not be around to be "leaders" if they weren't of a certain spineless disposition.
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sure, but that no longer requires things like Gladio. It's self imposed, and not done so out of fear but of belief.
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