I've said it before: the people who populate r/neoliberal are desperate to believe that the governing class is on the same team as them, because otherwise they would have to reconcile with the real monstrosity of a social and economic system designed to exploit them.
To achieve this delusion, they wrap themselves up in layers of wonkery and bad statistics like some kind of voodoo astrology, convincing themselves that obvious truths about inequality and exploitation are actually false if you just read enough charts and graphs.
I've said it before: the people who populate r/neoliberal are desperate to believe that the governing class is on the same team as them, because otherwise they would have to reconcile with the real monstrosity of a social and economic system designed to exploit them.
To achieve this delusion, they wrap themselves up in layers of wonkery and bad statistics like some kind of voodoo astrology, convincing themselves that obvious truths about inequality and exploitation are actually false if you just read enough charts and graphs.
And the other half of them are posting from that one air force base that mysteriously accounts for a huge proportion of Reddit traffic.