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Ardennes
May 12, 2002

Venomous posted:

the Democratic Party hasn't supported any form of left-wing or even centrist economics for at least 20 years + any attempts at economic reform in that direction would still be stonewalled by the GOP

the US is going to turn fascist, and the world will follow in its footsteps

e: I mean back in the 20s/30s there was afaik a p huge Keynesian or otherwise left-liberal contingent in the Democrats which supported the New Deal, but that's not been the case since the Bush administration at the very least. The Obama administration didn't exactly destroy the neoliberal consensus in the same way that the New Deal discredited laissez-faire economics for half a century

I would say "largely embraced" rather then "didn't exactly destroy," at best Obama allowed some very mild Keynesianism in the first term and largely became a deficit hawk after that (that "grand bargain" always slipped through his hands).

I think we may get a slightly shift to the center at the beginning of a crisis with the hope that the Democrats (or similar parties elsewhere) can fix the problem and then it will immediately start to get worse after that.

Granted, I think we are still very much still in a relative "sunny" period of growth, but employment data should give us a good idea where we are going in 2 years. U6 is the best it has been since 2007, a year before the great recession.

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