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    These two are pretty much the embodiment of neoliberalism. Their names are basically synonymous with system. Unfortunately, the succs have taken over the sub.

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    2. ognits on

      neoliberalism is when you intentionally prolong the AIDS crisis, and the more prolonged it gets, the neoliberalismer it is

    3. PolyrythmicSynthJaz on

      Neoliberalism is when you sell weapons to a country that calls America the “Great Satan” to fund death squads in Latin America.

    5. Tortellobello45 on

      They have some neoliberal characteristics, but, due to austerity and social policy, i would identify them as libertarians.

      I think that Reagan and Blair fit the definition better

    8. n00bi3pjs on

      Ronald Reagan:

      1. Vetoed anti segregation measures

      2. Let hundreds of thousands working age men die because they were different

      3. Ripped off solar panels from the white house

    14. Yeangster on

      Margaret thatcher doesn’t get enough credit for saving thousands of working class britons from slow death from black lung

    16. Louis_de_Gaspesie on

      https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ifylsx/rneoliberal_elects_the_american_presidents_part/

      https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/ik9qie/rneoliberal_elects_the_american_presidents_part/?sort=top

      https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/75gbr8/who_would_you_have_voted_for_in_1980_neoliberal/

      https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/6aacv7/reagan_was_not_a_neoliberal_or_a_neoliberal/

      What is up with the Reagan truthers on here? This sub has always been divided on Reagan.

    18. whatasillygame on

      BASED economic and foreign policy! Kinda cringe social policy. Good thing I social policy isn’t part of neoliberalism.

    19. shardybo on

      I agree that people give Thatcher grief without knowing much about her, or for the wrong reasons. I agree that the UK couldn’t continue in the direction it was going, and that her reforms were mostly necessary. However, let’s not pretend that her policies were perfect. The north was truly devastated by her reforms, and unemployment in the north rose drastically under her. I would say that she didn’t do nearly enough to mitigate that, to the point that formerly industrial northern cities haven’t fully recovered to this day.

      Also I dislike her because of section 28 and other socially conservative policies, but I’m aware you’re trying to make an economic argument

      And btw, none of this is to say that Thatcher wasn’t a Neoliberal. She clearly was. I just don’t think she was praise-worthy

    22. superchorro on

      YES, thank you. Half the time on here you’d think the core of neoliberalism is being a social progressive. It’s GREAT that Clinton-era Democrats accepted neoliberal ideas and that lots of centrist Democrats still carry them, but the degree to which people like to pretend neoliberal ideas aren’t linked to conservative thought in the US and the rest of the world is hilarious.

      Also good on you for ignoring all these random irrelevant comments about Aids and Iran or whatever. Somehow choices about aids are supposed to mean that you’re actually not for free markets or something. ok.

    25. zanpancan on

      BASED.

      Both Reagan and Thatcher administered policies and acrions that definitely weren’t ideal, may it be Iran-Contra, Section 28, the AIDS response, etc.

      But on the whole, both were transformative, and I’d argue necessary forces that truly helped realize the potential of their nations.

      From Reagan’s tax reforms, transportation deregulation, energy pricing reforms, and ATC whooping (yes.), to Thatcher with her tax reforms, privatizations, union regulation, financial services regulation, Right to Buy (yes, I support it, *kinda*), to her whooping the coal bros.

      All based. Not the social policy parts generally though (both of them did in their earlier capacities vote to decriminalize gay sex I believe though).

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