This Is the Story of How the Democrats Blew It on Gaza - Ben Rhodes

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21. This was definitely his biggest failure

He was less friendly to some of the neoliberalism of the Obama era (bringing in the awesome Lina Khan and somewhat more labor or environment friendly policies…the environment has just gone out of the debate by now…I guess Earth has been told it needs to fuck off) than our sleazy elite liked.
I myself got destroyed by the neoliberalism of that era.

And there was definitely a super sleazy MAHA type faction exploiting this horrifying war for Trumpian ends. This creep is an example:

https://roadtoomega.substack.com/p/the-case-for-progressive-party-reform

He claims to be “progressive” but elsewhere talks about bringing in a “purer” form of capitalism.

Reminds me of Justine Tunney, the crazy who was in the Occupy Wall Street movement and then went on to say that Obama should resign and Eric Schmidt be made CEO of the US.

I can’t tell with people like these if they are just kinda insane or plants. But either way, they are not the left. I don’t know what they are beyond malicious and self serving mostly.

I agree about the horrors of Gaza. Good god, what humane person wouldn’t. But the horrible reality of US politics is that the GOP is reliably
always garbage along with the industrialists (who are just opportunists, whatever their sartorial choices). Which makes every election a kind of escalating hostage situation. Sad that language that hyperbolic isn’t even that off. Well okay maybe not quite that. But my point is, I wasn’t slamming the op or denying the horrors of Gaza. I just hope a canny neoliberal doesn’t try to use it to attack Biden era antitrust policy etc. As I said, I have been personally affected and so I am as wary of neoliberals as of war hawks. Warier in truth because when you are dealing with your own troubles they tend to take centre stage.
The Lew Rockwell types are anti war but they are also anti regulation and pretty much everything sane. It’s not single issue.

And these guys are good at using language and messaging confusingly. They try to spin things in the least common sense driven ways possible.

There are no easy fixes or solutions. But definitely a neoliberal who is “anti-war” wouldn’t help. It’s like they try syncretic mixes to figure out how to swindle the populace and destroy the planet best.