New low? Not just idiotocracy, but active cultivation of selfishness, inequality, parochialism and provincialism. Strip the small carrot from public service for those who might wish to help others instead of pursuing the menial widgetry and grasp and grind of contemporary corporate life; privatize public schools for profit; disincentivize graduate education; reward the rich and the corporation, and dumb down the masses unswayed by racist and sexist propaganda. I suppose the idea is that the domestic neoliberal project can be stripped of its few state and private mechanisms which are compassionate or reformist, so that America can be a fully racist, xenophobic and militaristic plutocratic police state at home without gestures at decency or parity, as it has been an ugly, militaristic plutocratic neocolonial power abroad.
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