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LM Little

"Most grim is the demographic breakdown of voters. We saw, in droves, working-class voters (including union workers) shift to the right—an acceleration of a long-term trend of class dealignment among political parties. Where working class voters used to reliably vote for their class interests—that is, for the left—they voted, in large numbers, for a right-wing, anti-worker party." policyalternatives.ca/news-res

CCPA - · Beyond “elbows up”—Our election post-mortem - CCPAIt’s been an absolutely wild election. Polling predictions were a roller coaster, from a historic Conservative majority, to a Liberal majority, and everything in between. When we got off the roller coaster, we ended up with a parliament that is very similar in overall composition to the one that came before it—a Liberal minority with…
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DB 🌱💦

@eniko Because the people who suggest that sensible idea are not in power, and do not have the ear of those in power.

About 50 years ago left-wing economists embraced neoliberalism - free-market capitalism, deregulation, and reduction in government spending & austerity.

Here's professor of economics Bill Mitchell explaining how left-wing politics lost the global economic debate...

#Capitalism#Neoliberalism#Privatization
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Estelle Platini

"Modern civilisation has a number of extremely delicate and highly interconnected components whose graceful degradation is effectively impossible."

It is "much easier to break things than to build them up. The government administrations of Britain, France and Germany for example, were set up at a time in the nineteenth century when the rising middle classes demanded a properly functioning state[…]. It took perhaps a generation for professional, neutral public services to fully emerge."

"Forty years of globalised neoliberalism have broken our societies, our economies and our political systems, and we no longer have the ability to put them back together."

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Brave New Europe · Aurelien - The End? - Brave New EuropeThere must be some way out of here … surely? Cross-posted from Aurelien’s substack A scene from Samuel Beckett’s Endgame The original idea behind these essays when I started them three years ago, was that [...]
#civilService#statehood#bureaucracy
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Maggie Maybe

Oh look! Youtube somehow knew I was complaining about the neoliberal immigration slavery scheme. (I assume it’s because I was using talk to text here, and my phone told you too I was talking about this. Or it could be pure coincidence.)

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#immigration #HumanTrafficking #H2A
#CapitalismKills #slavery #neoliberalism #farmers

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