This is an excellent point. I highly recommend the book “Democracy in Chains,” by Nancy MacLean. Although Friedman is the evil piece of filth who usually gets the credit for NeoLiberalism, MacLean focuses on a very similar pseudo-economist named James Buchanan, who even won a Nobel Prize for Economics in 1986. Buchanan (as well as Friedman) advised the Chilean coup on how to warp that country’s constitution to hobble possible future resurgence of democracy. Buchanan also wrote what was effectively a NeoLiberal guerilla guide to impose anti-democratic systems on the U.S, step by step, lie by lie, impoverishment by impoverishment. Much of what he outlined has become talking points of both parties in the U.S., though of course the Republicans treat it as fundamental driving dogma.
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