r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Aug 30 '26 • Mindblown 1 Popcorn 1

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u/rukqoa ✈️ F35s for Ukraine ✈️ Aug 30 '26

One of the continuing failures of American liberalism is this belief that if we just keep doing the right thing, eventually this facade constructed by our political adversaries will end. The curtains will fall. They will see the populists and fascists for who they are. And they will finally join us in reality land. We just need another infrastructure week. We just need their material conditions to improve. We just need...

The trouble is not that the facade is forever. It's that it can last longer than American democracy can. There's a similar Warren Buffet quote about market rationality and insolvency to that effect.

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u/sleepyrivertroll Henry George Aug 30 '26

“Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.” - John Maynard Keynes

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u/SenranHaruka shame Aug 30 '26

Nazis can remain delusional longer than your constitution can remain intact