President Joe Biden’s approval rating dipped to the lowest point of his presidency in May, a new poll shows, with deepening pessimism emerging among members of his own Democratic Party. Only 39% of U.S.
I've said for years now that everyone is fed up with status-quo liberalism and that the popularity of people like Trump comes in no small part because of that. Liberals think its 1994 still and you can have a president who maybe does one small thing here or there but otherwise does nothing and the population won't care. Most people might not consciously think "I'm disenfranchised from neoliberalism" but they are, and it'll just keep getting worse from here
This is actually one of the ways that liberalism always collapses into fascism. Liberals dismantle left wing movements which threaten capital, then inevitably collapses due to changing material conditions under capitalism. This means that fascist power structures have a very easy time taking hold, both systemically and ideologically as there is no alternative ideology to oppose it.
The 90s had a rise in the rate of profit after the decline in the 70s. People didn't care cause times were good and the economy was growing (not nearly as good as 50 to 69).
Even still, capitalism hadn't cannibalized that much of the imperial core yet. Sure, unions had been dismantled and neoliberal systems like NAFTA already existed, but the impact exploitation had on the average American worker wasn't yet where it is now. Rent was much less, prices were less, the quality and quantity of products were greater, and above all there was no 2008 financial crisis allowing capitalists to cheaply loot the economy. That's different now, we're struggling more, and you can't pitch a system like liberalism to your working class if their exploitation is too great. Liberalism requires the wealth of empire to placate proles with a good enough quality of life, of which the US no longer has any semblance
I've said for years now that everyone is fed up with status-quo liberalism and that the popularity of people like Trump comes in no small part because of that. Liberals think its 1994 still and you can have a president who maybe does one small thing here or there but otherwise does nothing and the population won't care. Most people might not consciously think "I'm disenfranchised from neoliberalism" but they are, and it'll just keep getting worse from here
This is actually one of the ways that liberalism always collapses into fascism. Liberals dismantle left wing movements which threaten capital, then inevitably collapses due to changing material conditions under capitalism. This means that fascist power structures have a very easy time taking hold, both systemically and ideologically as there is no alternative ideology to oppose it.
The 90s had a rise in the rate of profit after the decline in the 70s. People didn't care cause times were good and the economy was growing (not nearly as good as 50 to 69).
Even still, capitalism hadn't cannibalized that much of the imperial core yet. Sure, unions had been dismantled and neoliberal systems like NAFTA already existed, but the impact exploitation had on the average American worker wasn't yet where it is now. Rent was much less, prices were less, the quality and quantity of products were greater, and above all there was no 2008 financial crisis allowing capitalists to cheaply loot the economy. That's different now, we're struggling more, and you can't pitch a system like liberalism to your working class if their exploitation is too great. Liberalism requires the wealth of empire to placate proles with a good enough quality of life, of which the US no longer has any semblance
That or liberals align with fascist to keep what power they have still
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