A recent essay said liberals must no longer say "liberal," "left," "progressive," or "populist." (http://caucus99percent.com/content/liberals-must-not-say-liberal-left-pr...) As to "populist" specifically, the essay pointed out that, since the Democratic primary (or earlier), neoliberals had been working to associate populism with the racism of pro-Jim Crow Democrats and Dixiecrats.

Those two groups of racist Democrats were for populism because their constituents in the post-bellum South were poor. (Kids, in the old days, before voting machines, Democratic politicians found it easier to represent the interests of their constituents than to rig elections and populism helped the poor--rigged elections, btw, being another thing liberals must no longer mention.) You know, poor, like so many Americans after the triple play of Clinton, Bush and Obama. Only, thanks to Bubba, himself very much a product of the Jim Crow South (http://caucus99percent.com/content/hillary-thy-name), we now have gofundme and similar "privatized welfare" websites, instead of New Deal big government welfare as we knew it before Bubba. (Bubba must not feel the pain of the poor as much as he professed.)

Turns out that, while my observation about "populism" was correct as far as it went, something else had registered on my brain only sub-consciously and peripherally: Neoliberals, bless their hearts, were associating "populist" not only with racism, but also with the "far" right and therefore, by extension, with the entire basket of deplorables of which Her has been guilty. (http://caucus99percent.com/content/hillary-thy-name-ispart-seven seven parts and I had not yet gotten to Her racist 2008 primary or Her "religiously-tinged 2016 primary!) It's as though the universe of political terminology is folding in on itself, like some venomous, anti-human version of origami.

Why am I writing this today? Well, read almost any story about the Dutch elections. Turns out, defeating the "far right" now means people hate populism and love the Common Market, after all. (example: http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/16/europe/netherlands-dutch-results/) And the relatively newly-neoliberal Guardian even adds "anti-Islam." (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/15/pm-mark-rutte-set-to-beat-...) Wow! Only the most evil people want to help the poor! (I always thought that the right does not really want to help the poor. Thank heaven I'm finally getting misunder-educated!)

As an aside, how about that vast neoliberal random coincidence of every corporate publication in the world referring to the political philosophy of Holland's right as "far right populism?" One thing I know for sure is that claiming establishment media collaborate with each other and/or with the plutocratic establishment is only a "conspiracy theory," much like Hillary's claim that the vast right wing conspiracy made up a relationship between Monica and Bubba. So, I really, really need someone to calculate the odds on that happening by sheer chance. (http://caucus99percent.com/content/theory-conspiracy-theory-or-healthy-c... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vast_right-wing_conspiracy; https://www.democracynow.org/2016/12/1/how_the_media_iced_out_bernie)

Another startling and totes random coincidence: Europe and the USA went neoliberal almost simultaneously! What are the odds?

Today, many of the ideas that comprise the core of the Democratic Party's agenda come from work done under From's leadership at the DLC...... In 1998, with First Lady Hillary Clinton, From began a dialogue with British Prime Minister Tony Blair and other world leaders, and the DLC brand – known as The Third Way – became a model for resurgent liberal governments around the globe.[18] In April 1999, he hosted an historic Third Way forum in Washington with President Clinton, Prime Minister Blair, German Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder, Prime Ministers Wim Kok of the Netherlands and Massimo D'Alema of Italy.[19]

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