Neoliberals demand all their favored governments maintain a veneer of democratic legitimacy through regularly held elections and pro-democracy rhetoric. Why? Because Neoliberals understand that you can economically rape a populace to death if you can only convince them that they asked for it. “Well, gee this sucks! But we voted for concentrating all our wealth in the hands of a small group of hyperconnected plutocrats, so better suck it up! Besides, we can just vote the bums out, right? Time to go to my third job so I can earn enough to buy groceries.”

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