BATTLING THE TRUMP CARD: Socioeconomic Insecurity and Neofeudalism

Beyond the threat of insurrection, Trump has another ace in the hole, the fire of basic anxieties he can continue to stoke.

“If mankind simply dodges a bullet without appreciating from whence it came, there will certainly be another”. Anonymous

“Neoliberalism isn’t an economic program — it’s a political program designed to produce hopelessness and kill any future alternatives”. David Graeber

“The very design of neoliberal principles is a direct attack on democracy”. Noam Chomsky

“Neoliberalism, arguably, sets the course for this kind of neo-extremism, this right-wing extremism that we are facing. The only way we solve that crisis, the rise of the right-wing extreme, is by truly progressive policies that address this crisis of economic security. That will not come from the lesser evil”. Jill Stein

“Decades of neoliberal devastations of middle- and working-class prospects, combined with fears about climate change, set the ground for our politics today. The dismantling of social states — the social provisions and social commitments that put a floor under working- and middle-class people when things go wrong — is key. That floor is gone. At the same time, wages became stagnant or worse. Unions became so severely weakened that they lost their capacity to work against capital, and states largely gave up regulating capital. The rise of finance capital which spikes the cost of everything from housing to…