The real problem: Democrats/Progressives, embrace neoliberalism and free market fundamentalism

Good post over at Daily Kos that talks about how Democrats/Progressives, etc have really been the enablers of Republican free market fundamentalism because Dems, themselves, believe in it, too!

All of us here in the MMT community see this and understand this and have been frustrated by it for so long, however, until we get a Democratic Party or a Progressive movement that once and for all casts off its neoliberal bindings then nothing will change.

Check out this paragraph...

"The problem is that the neoliberals are still firmly in control of the Democratic Party. No Democratic leader is willing to admit the idea of having free-trade agreements with 3rd world nations means a race to the bottom with wages. No Democratic leader is incline to propose rolling back 40 years of disastrous deregulation. Instead Democrats push things like legalized gay marriage, which while being a positive development for civil rights, is exactly what the "culture warriors" of the Republican Party want. It continues to distact people away from the item that the vast majority of people are most concerned with - jobs and wages. Before anything else, the Democrats need to challenge the most basic premise of the far-right -market fundamentalism."

The rest of the post can be accessed here.

Look at who Democrats nominated in 2008 and who they reelected: Obama. The neoliberal doctrine intensified under his watch. He's negotiating secret trade deals, cutting deficits, raising taxes on working people and looking away as labor unions get decimated even more.

And who is the "dream candidate" of the Democratic Party for 2016? Hilary Clinton...the ultimate neoliberal. Her husband was the welfare cutting (real welfare, like, for needy people), Glass-Steagall ending, Wall Street deregulating, surplus running, king of all time who is still revered by Democrats.