Monday, September 14, 2020

"Eventually private behaviours congealed into a debased neoliberalism, the sociopathic operating system that has dominated Boomer politics, Right and Left, for more than three decades. The Boomers' ersatz neoliberalism emphasizes consumption over production, dogmatic deregulation instead of thoughtful oversight, permanent deficits instead of fiscal prudence, and capitalism liberated from the bounds of the state, though always free to replenish itself at the federal trough in the event "sub-prime mortgages," "junk bonds," or "collateralized debt obligations" somehow lived up to their names."

- Quote from: "A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America" by Bruce Cannon Gibney