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" As a former libertarian and a current neoliberal..." I recall vividly the frequency and hypocrisy of Alternet's(and similar neoliberal propaganda outlets' editorial crop of libertarianism-bashing articles populating its propaganda pages, but a few years back... I always saw neoliberalism to be r-libertarianism on corrupted statist steroids and lacking the redeeming civil rights and foreign policy values which Ron Paul-libertarians hold dear. If the "left" were presented with a choice of forming an alliance I can't imagine anyone choosing to ally with neoliberals; with Democrats over (r)Libertarians.... Neoliberalism vs. Libertarianism Similar, yet so different. by  Danny Villalobos As a former libertarian and a current neoliberal, I will describe the difference in approach to policy that makes neoliberals and libertarians similar but yet so distinct at the same time. Often, it’s difficult to describe what  neoliberalism  is, which I hope establishing t

I penned a longish piece but after coming back to it two days later I decided to place it on the back burner. It was too something..., let's say.  If you want to make a difference in the political space, well as in your own life, you need to be honest, bold and provocative; you need to challenge the prevailing wisdom and the lack of it wherever you find either. Many of the smaller, 25K-50K followers, sporting blogs in Dore-landia are, IMO, falling short of challenging political realities head-on. By challenging I mean critically questioning, as opposed to taking an absolutist contrarian stance. What distinguishes Jimmy Dore, Craig Pasta J., and a bit less so Kit Cabello from the bourgeois PMC neoliberal "left" represented by the the like of censoring Briahna Joy Gray, Katie Halper, and now, increasingly, the censoring Sabrina Salvatti, is their self identifying, anti establishment, left-populist, post-partisan, brand of political conceits, if not yet of committed to activ