[Reagan Man]

>>>Oh, the incomprehensible, inexcusable, tortured logic.

Your rhetorical reply seems tortured. LOL Have you always had this much trouble comprehending the english language?

>>>Clearly you've never heard of a lot of things that you....

I saw your link. I know what a neo-liberal is. Reagan was no neo-liberal. Reagan was a traditional conservative and a republican.

I expected as much ignorance...

You are the epitome of ignorance. On this entire thread, you've tried to redefine who Ronald Reagan was and who Arnold Schwarzenegger is. You've tried to bend and shape Reagan to form to your leftwing political ideology. Sorry, it didn't work. And your efforts to make Arnold into a cosnervative are laughable! LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

The truth is, you've disqualified yourself.

[counterpunch]

You've tried to bend and shape Reagan to form to your leftwing political ideology.

Neo-liberalism is the antithesis of left-wing.

"Left-wing" is an economic philosophy. It is Marxism-socialism. "Right-wing" is neo-liberalism.

I know what a neo-liberal is. Reagan was no neo-liberal.

Really?

[Excerpted from Wikipedia]

Neoliberalism is a political philosophy and a political-economic movement beginning in the 1960s -- and increasingly prominent since 1980 -- that de-emphasizes or rejects modern, New Deal, or statist liberal doctrines, focusing instead on achieving progress and social justice by more free-market methods, especially an emphasis on economic growth, as measured by changes in real gross domestic product. Because of close association between this philosophy and neoclassical economics, and confusion with the overloaded term "liberal", the term neoclassical philosophy is advocated by some.

The term neoliberalism does not mean a new version of the "liberalism" of the modern period -- that is John Dewey, Woodrow Wilson, Franklin Roosevelt or the Liberal Party of Great Britain, but of classical "liberalism" as it was understood in the 19th century -- the establishment of a stable medium of exchange in the gold standard, and the reduction of localized rules, regulations and barriers to commerce. This philosophy justified and encouraged the "first era of globalization" which came to an end with the shocks of the First World War and the collapse of the Gold Standard (just as neoliberalism is associated with the "second era of globalization" after World War II). "Liberalism" in the classical sense is still the meaning of the word in many nations, including most of Latin America.

The neoliberal "policy revolution" may have started with the violent ouster of the social-democratic government of Salvador Allende in Chile by General Augusto Pinochet and the U.S. government. But it culminated with the Reagan government in the United States and that of Margaret Thatcher in Britain, along with the fall of the Soviet Union and the fading of social democracy as alternatives to unbridled capitalism. These governments not only shifted their own countries' policies toward laissez-faire (with the major exception of Reagan's deficit-spending policies) but used their control of the major Bretton Woods institutions to impose their policies on the rest of the world. So nowadays, neoliberalism is generally seen as synonymous with the "Washington Consensus," the dominant policy view at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the U.S. Treasury Department at the end of the 20th century and the start of the 21st.

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"...it culminated with the Reagan government in the United States..."

Tell me again that you know what neo-liberalism is, or that Ronald Reagan was not a neo-liberal.