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“The dirty secret of the neoliberal era is that these ideas were never defeated in a great battle of ideas, nor were they voted down in elections. They were shocked out of the way at key political junctures.” (569)

“These ideas” = examples of democratic socialism

So close

Government brain drain is so sad, can we stop it 💁‍♀️

Had an elaborate plan of finishing this tn…unfortunately not happening

“Countries, like people, don’t reboot to zero with a good shock; they just break and keep on breaking” (471)

Part 5 was hard to get to and I’m finding a lot of typos and sentences structures that I don’t like :(