Neo-liberal policies are turning the US into what Americans call developing countries

[malaise]

=Third World shithole countries- Texas is now the proverbial poster child for what happens when the social good is destroyed for the market.
Fuck this shit!

[Zoonart]

1. You are soooooo right.

Most people are still sleep walking through this. Watching what is going on in Texas is scary and infuriating.
Have you seen this post?
Texas mayor quits after calling residents 'lazy' and 'weak' amid power outages from storm
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100215120480#post3

When sis the American people sign up for the Hunger Games? Texas is a failed state.

[lunasun]

2. +rec this cuz yes !

[OhZone]

3. Why are you calling it Neo-Liberal?

It's conservative policies.

[Turin_C3PO]

4. Neo-liberal is the correct term.

It doesn’t refer to who we think of as “liberals”. Most neo-liberals are Republicans although the DLC within the Democratic Party had a few neo-liberals back twenty, thirty years ago.

[Klaralven]

5. Neo-liberalism is the resurgence of ideas associated w economic liberalism & free-market capitalism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

[Tanuki]

6. This is a good explanation:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism

[JHB]

10. Because it's an economic term about "liberalization" of markets...

...i.e., deregulation and less government "interference."

[msfiddlestix]

8. Turning? That ship sailed decades ago! n/t

[Vogon_Glory]

9. I agree

Watching factories shut down, family farms Foreclosed and sold to agri-Business, budgets for education, social services, and infrastructure slashed by crooks and fools bleating about the “Free Market” tooth-fairy, we are indeed sliding into Third World status.

Some parts are either already there (Or never left it): the Deep South, Arkansas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and parts of Texas. Other states are heading there: Ohio and much of Michigan.

And the suckers lapping up that right-wing horse-muck meme and also railing about brown people from abroad are too busy pinching their white skins are too clueless to look around them to look for the similarities between their surroundings and many of the places (particularly Central America and South America’ Caribbean coast) those brown people left.

English: Dumb-A$$es!

Spanish: Idiotas!