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It was a year ago this month that Joe Biden promised to transform this country, change it more than any president had in over 100 years. He was going to create a new economy through what he called “a once in a generation investment in America unlike anything we’ve seen or done since we built the interstate highway system.”
Well, that’s big. What would it cost? Well, more than $4 trillion.
How much is that exactly? Well, it’s more than twice the gross domestic product of the entire nation of Canada, and, of course, most other countries, too. At the Washington Post, they suggested that Joe Biden’s promise marked “the waning of the neoliberal era.”
Now they describe neoliberalism as centrist liberalism, friendly to Wall Street, when, of course, it’s not exactly that. Neoliberalism is looting with a smokescreen of race and gender politics so you won’t notice that it happened. But the Post told us, “Relax. Joe Biden’s going to give us something even better, better than we’ve ever had. Think FDR and the New Deal but with no downside.”
So that’s what they were telling you a year ago, April 20, 2021. Fast-forward a year, and it’s clear the Post got it just about half right. Neoliberalism has indeed waned under Joe Biden. It will not survive the Biden administration, but that’s not because Joe Biden has rejected neoliberalism or found an alternative, something that will revolutionize America, like the interstate highway system. No.
It’s because Joe Biden embraced neoliberalism and in so doing reminded the rest of us, tens of millions of Americans, that it’s horrible, that neoliberalism serves the interests of virtually no one. It’s a cover for the distribution of wealth, a distribution that has become more lopsided in our age than at any age ever. It is a shocking discredit to capitalism. It’s not actually market capitalism. It’s something controlled and grotesque.
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So anyone who thinks about this for about 30 seconds gets the point immediately. They don’t want you to think about it, and that’s why Biden did what they always do: Tried to divide the country along racial lines, make you hate your neighbor so you won’t think about where the money is going. He did what Barack Obama did, but much less artfully.
Here’s Joe Biden warning us that the biggest threat to America is not the fact you can’t afford groceries or that a tiny number of people is richer than anyone in human history. No, the real threat to you is White supremacy.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: According to United States intelligence community, domestic terrorism from White supremacists is the most lethal terrorist threat in the homeland.
BIDEN: We know now we must confront and defeat political extremism, White supremacy and domestic terrorism.
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PRESIDENT BIDEN: Don’t dare call them protesters. They were a riotous mob, insurrectionists, domestic terrorists.
PRESIDENT BIDEN: White supremacy, domestic terrorism, that we must confront, and we will defeat.
“White supremacy.”
He has no idea what he’s even saying. He’s just reading a script that’s been around a long time, since at least Occupy Wall Street, a little over a decade ago. Neoliberal politicians and media outlets began ranting about race constantly around that time to get you to stop thinking about what they were actually doing and for a long time, it worked, but it can’t work forever because it’s not true. They’ve been telling you for a decade that White supremacy is the real threat, but if you read the news, you know that’s probably not true.
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