The rampant cabal conspiracy theory the MAGA Republicans like to say is misinformation. It’s horse hockey. BS. They lie like a cheap rug covered in dog poo. This Cabal they keep referring to, is their own economic philosophy. That economic philosophy is neoliberalism. The Republican party is completely delusional as they don’t know that they are actually practicing this economic philosophy their 40th president opened the door for. Some of them probably never heard him speak. However, the name “liberal” is in the title so it must be the Democrats who designed it. Over the course of this blog I am going to share some insights on neoliberalism and I’m going to provide the best source I have ever found regarding information on this philosophy. https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/neoliberalism/#EthoCrit

My understanding of the economic philosophy came from digging into educational research, and this led me to New Zealand and Chile. Both countries had a rise of this philosophy. New Zealand rejected it early, but Chile had to fight through the Pinochet years to finally rid itself via revolution of the economic philosophy. Neoliberalism has stripped tax monies from public schools that are underperforming. The goal of the economic philosophy when it comes to education is to move all of education to the private sector. School vouchers, school choice, subsidizing private or home schooling education, and tax rebates are all used as a propaganda tool to ridicule education, the teachers, and the Department of Education. Why? To make it a for profit enterprise. Just like private prisons, private space firms, unfunded mandates on insurance of all kinds, duplicating public service in the private sector and adding fees to make everything profitable. It has been going on since President Reagan took office. Here’s the speech the cements this philosophy into the conservative paradigm. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unb7tzd-JkQ

Neoliberalism is defined as: “neoliberalism” is now generally thought to label the philosophical view that a society’s political and economic institutions should be robustly liberal and capitalist, but supplemented by a constitutionally limited democracy and a modest welfare state. Recent work on neoliberalism, thus understood, shows this to be a coherent and distinctive political philosophy. (Front page of the website)

The USA’s economy over the last 40 years has worked liberally to deregulate capitalism. The country has waged war on entitlements for decades (Welfare, Social Security, Medicare, Unemployment benefits, Minimum Wage.) During the 2012 election Mitt Romney was quoted as saying “Corporations are people too.” This is how blatant the liberalism is within capitalist rhetoric. Corporations have rights. In the eyes of the law, more rights than actual citizens. https://www.npr.org/sections/itsallpolitics/2011/08/11/139551684/romneys-corporations-are-people-getting-lots-of-mileage This is the liberalism in “Neoliberalism.” The capitalist economy gets to run freely, naked, and powerfully over the people of the United States. The progenitors of this action are Republicans primarily.

From chapter 6 of the Stanford website as it relates to the welfare state: Neoliberals support modest taxation, the redistribution of wealth, the provision of public goods, and the implementation of social insurance, embracing a state somewhat more expansive than one where government protects people from foreign powers and domestic criminals, produces public goods, and provides limited services for the poor.

The key words here are redistribution of wealth. The sources provided in the welfare state are mixed on this philosophy saying everything from tax credits for the poor, guaranteed minimal incomes as proposed by presidential candidates very recently, to property is not an essential right of anyone. The redistribution of wealth has primarily been one-sided (for the rich.) In 2016 (Volume 122 Number 2) the American Journal of Sociology published a large article on income inequality within the USA. The span of the study was from the 1970’s to the end of President Obama’s first term. Politics and Economic Stratification: Power Resources and Income Inequality in the United States by David Jacobs and Jonathan C. Dirlam provides numerous statistics of how neoliberal economics under Republican presidents increases the income gap between the richest and poorest, while Democratic presidents have a decrease in the income gap. I have a pdf of the document in my personal possession, but due to copyright I can’t share it. Please feel free to access it through University of Chicago Press Journals.

Despite having to move into neoliberal economics to save the party, Democrats have still managed to slow the march farther and farther to the right. Unfortunately, the populace of the United States thinks Neoliberalism is a Left wing program despite being a Republican economic policy and we keep moving right. We are just about to Pinochet fascist right.

Other issues with Republican sponsored neoliberalism.

1. (7.2) Rawls argued that even welfare-state capitalism cannot protect the value of political liberty or realize its priority (Rawls 1993 [2005]) because it allows for the accumulation of capital in too few hands, which leads to economic domination of politics, and shuts many people out of the goods of owning and operating at least some of the capital they need to enjoy the worth of their constitutional liberties.
2. (7.3) A very common criticism of neoliberalism is that it undermines democracy. This might be because high economic inequality undermines democracy, as Martin Gilens (2014) argues in Affluence and Influence and defended by Larry Bartels (2008 [2016]).
3. (7.4) Neoliberal regimes rely heavily on market mechanisms, and neoliberals claim that markets are efficient or at least highly economically productive (neoliberals disagree about how to characterize and explain market productivity and efficiency).

(7.2) Wealth in too few hands. Remember the three billionaires at the inauguration? One gave an awkward salute of racist origins? Remember? Those three could solve world hunger. Instead they bought the presidency to consolidate economic power. Solution: Tax the rich. Let’s avoid a repeat of France or a revolution like Chile.

(7.3) Undermining of democracy. 14th amendment birth right clause. 4th amendment (perceived violation) on ICE raid in New Jersey https://www.fox5ny.com/news/newark-workers-detained-after-controversial-federal-operation The executive orders on 20-January-2025 say civil rights violations against trans, cis, and non-binary peoples. Then the elimination of the reproductive rights web page… Project 2025 is coming our way like an anvil on a coyote.

(7.4) Remember when the market improved during the Biden administration. Guess who took credit… Yep, the neoliberals (Republicans) not Biden. They take credit for every success, but aren’t very good at accepting culpability on their personal and policy failures. Example: Not knowing their own economic policy.

This is the Cabal. $47 is part of this Cabal. He is using all of us to empower and profit himself and his buddies. It is not acceptable. Please feel free to read all of the information that I have provided. Think about it. Was this how our economic system was supposed to be? I bet Alexander Hamilton is rolling in his grave in NYC. I could write a novel on this, but I don’t wish to bore you with details… just the results… and why it is happening.

I’ll close with a story. I’ve confronted more than my fair share of privileged, racist, MAGA folks on social media. I’ve asked most of them why they support neoliberal economic policy. The three most common responses: “I don’t” “Who’s that in your profile picture?” “I don’t support any kind of liberal b***s***.” Not one of them has asked what is neoliberalism is or could be. This is the level of ignorance the enlightened are fighting in the USA. They can’t even see the tree in front of them, because they think it is a carton of $2 eggs.

I will not rest until I stop the Cabal! Tax the rich!! …and so it goes…

P.S. Even though I’m a humanist and a free thinker. I do approve of how the Catholic Church and Episcopalian Church of America has responded to $47. I’m glad to see them drawing a line of separation between them and the cult of Christian Nationalists.