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I can't think of any other net effect of neoliberalism besides the evisceration of federal power and the trickling up of the majority of wealth to the top 10%, if not the top 1%.
Since Reagan, America has been conducting a significant experiments from a neoliberal perspective. Now that the net effect is kicking into high gear and is essentially embedded in the nation, there is little now that can be done to maintain what Americans have come to expect to be an American way of life.
It might help explain such American problems regarding crime and education. It might also help explain why much of America is beginning to look like Latin America if it doesn't already.
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Knowing that death is certain and that the time of death is uncertain, what's the most important thing?
—Bhikkhuni Pema Chödrön
Humankind cannot bear very much reality.
—From "Burnt Norton," Four Quartets (1936), T. S. Eliot
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