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In response to Cass Sunstein and @freepeoplesfreepress
What we experience today is not "liberalism" in the classic sense whatsoever. Should we actually still practice the liberalism of the Roosevelt era, I highly doubt there would be much in the way opposition to liberalism in the U.S.
What we practice today is #NEOLIBERALISM. Or, liberalism completely dominated by "finance capitalism" as described in the link I post below by #MichaelHudson & #SteveKeen.
Evidence of this fact is the utter disappearance in the U.S. of industrial capitalism & industrial policy -- again spoken of in depth below.
The critique of "liberals" by the left is truly a critique of neoliberalism -- government by corporate financiers and rent seekers -- wedded to the neoliberal political strategy of using identity politics to undermine class cohesion. The Clintons really got the Democrats rolling down this road. Obama doubled down on it -- see the wall street bailout, yo. Biden is just another clone with some frilly left topping to make it look like he's different because people are catching on.
Then, ask yourself where "liberals" get the majority of their campaign contributions? Huh? Yup ... you guessed it: Wall Street.
So, please Mr. *master of rhetoric* Sunstein ... spare me the crocodile tears about the left laying "siege" to liberalism. We're not. We're laying siege to the neoliberalism that you, and your ilk benefit from at the expense of the people -- an analysis Sunstein OH SO CONVENIENTLY forgets to include in his "high minded" rhetoric filled screed.