I can't tell you how much i hate labels.

Words have always meant different things to different people. It's the misinterpretations or misunderstandings of what is meant which causes more conflicts than almost anything else. People do love to assume things about others.

Neo-liberalism, conservatism, neo-conservatism, liberalism, socialism, communism, for example, tell me nothing about what a person believes about any particular issue. But most will assume what people believe and think by how they’ve labeled their subjects.

It does make it easier to hate people, because the haters need to lump them into one group, no matter how inaccurate their judgment might be. Trump uses such assumptions to fuel divisiveness very effectively.

It's like the two party system; all it does is divide populations into us and them. Societies need to get by the labels and start listening, and understanding to opposing views/opinions if they’re ever going to find common ground on anything. I mean 'active' listening, not just arguing.

It's the only way people can start collaborating. It was printed on American money or coins, but i don’t know if it still is; "Together we stand, divided we fall", or something like that. It's a hard truth, as well as the formula for more effective decision-making.

That’s my pre-bed rant, so i bid you all good night. Cheers.

Okay, according to my Google search, neo-liberalism is an economic approach favoring open markets and global connectedness. So, you could say that has been the prevailing trend, but it certainly now is being met by strong counterforces, Brexit, the just-lainched tariff war, and Trumps recent embarrassing attack on the G7 spirit of cooperation. Fascism, a hateful nationalism, does not trust or respect internation open trade. Trump is a fascist. Just consider him Vladimir Putin's Fuckyou-granade lobbed at the western ecomonic and defense alliance. ?

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Neoliberalism is the name they came up with for trickle down economics, the prosperity gospel, and all that bootstraps nonsense. They called it that to sugar coat the idea. Make it more palatable to people who weren't Hardline conservatives but believed in 'meritocracy.'

It's all too prevalent in far too many places.

NO and it won't be until they get mad enough to set everything on fire. I can't even.

smh

I think in the U.K we have a sort of Hokey- Cokey prevailing orthodoxy - In out shake it all about and lie- lie -lie-and thats what its all about!

If you look at the US, UK, EU, Turkey, China and Russia, I'd say neo-fascism is prevailing.

I guess it depends on your definition of it, especially the "neo-" part. ...but what am I saying? No. It is not prevailing in any case, because right now there is a powerful countervailing neoconservative, nationalist populist movement in many countries, the U.S. certainly among them.