Was neolib hate forged as a right-wing astroturf reaction to the 2000s hate toward neocons?
I genuinely can't wrap my head around the people who throw this, and I thought I was pretty progressive-left. Do those who use neo-lib as an insult disparage well-regulated social democracies such as Nordic nations which blend regulated markets with select-nationalized elements?
Neo-liberal is a political ideology based around free-market capitalism. Reagan and Thatcher are good examples. Pretty right wing economically, theoretically socially agnostic, but experience shows that neo-libs will happily leverage bigotry to fulfil their policy goals.
Libs in this meme comes from a leftist perspective. Anyone who supports capitalist society or ideology is considered at a minimum to be a liberal.
Jesus christ, we aren't seriously trying to group liberals with bitches like Thatcher and Reagan? They were both conservative racist pieces of shit that very much had it out for liberals. I swear some of you lemmings see every person to the right of Lenin and see no difference.