Below is an email I sent family and friends yesterday, explaining why this is my last essay on this blog. Individual Sovereignty started a bit over thirteen years ago. It's time to change horses... but first---
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Introduction
Only a bit over six minutes in length (too brief to be a complete explanation), this clip to some degree explains the neoliberal coup. Pay particular attention to Jimmy Carter's short statement. Carter was elected President largely because of the efforts of David Rockefeller and Z. Brzezinski (author of The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy and Its Geostrategic Imperatives).
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The Email (Title: Maybe, Maybe Not), edited
The end of neoliberalism?---
We can always hope. It should have collapsed after Pinochet in Chile, or at least after the Crash in 2008. Corporatists, politicians, economists of a certain flavor, the Corporate Media, and others keep it hanging on... without naming it.
Neoliberalism has brought us lost jobs & manufacturing, income inequality, austerity, increased susceptibility to disease, environmental destruction, increased military interventionism, privatization, Neofeudalism, and a weaker, less resilient economy... among many other ills.
Prominent Neoliberals include/included: Friedrich Hayek, Ludwig von Mises, Walter Lippmann, Kissinger, Carter, Brzezinski, David Rockefeller, Milton Friedman, Reagan, Thatcher, H.W. Bush, both Clintons, Gore, M. Albright, Robert Rubin, Alan Greenspan, Obama, Biden, Larry Summers, T. Geithner, Pelosi, McConnell, most all Mega Bank CEOs, etc. The Cheney-Bush-Wolfowitz cabal was NeoCon, and the difference between that & NeoLib is almost nil. Trump isn't a NeoCon or a NeoLib. He has no ideology at all. The closest one would be straight-up Fascism.
As you can see, the term "neoliberal" transcends the old labels of Repub, Dem, Conservative, Libertarian, & Liberal. That's not only my opinion. Many articles have been written on the subject in numerous, prestigious publications... The New Yorker, The Atlantic (founded as The Atlantic Monthly), NYT, The New Republic, The Guardian, etc. Here are a few of those pieces---
https://www.theguardian.com/
https://newrepublic.com/
Neoliberals are all across the political spectrum, and have been for decades. I believe anyone not fully aware of the details in all the above is behind on the learning curve in politics. So, after posting this--- maybe in the next few days--- on Individual Sovereignty, I'm going to leave that blog and start a new one. [The theme of it will be something along the lines of "Ecology and World Survival".] I've concluded that neither the Right or the Left (on Main Street) truly understands the unquestionably dominant economic and political philosophy/ideology in the world (including the USA) today--- neoliberalism, and the fact that it has displaced all the old labels. I'm growing weary of trying to explain it. Time to move on. 
p.s. Neoliberalism is not "new", and it's not "liberal".
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Not only my opinion. Stay Well
p.s. Many thanks to those who have followed this blog for years, and to those who visited however briefly. Within a month or so, I hope to have the new site up and running. I'll post a link on this blog when appropriate. If you have any interest in Human Ecology and Environmental Science, please have a look.
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