POETRY

Neoliberalism Crash

Milton Friedman, Thatcher, Reagan and their long reach today

James G Brennan
Resistance Poetry
Published in
2 min readNov 29, 2020

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Photo by Caio Silva on Unsplash

“Our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth,
including human life” — Naomi Klein.

Neoliberalism, a modern-day success,
the rich become richer and the poor poorer,
blame it on where we are today.

In a messed up selfish egomaniac
megalomaniac western society
who have all the answers on how the rest of the world
Should operate, if you don’t, then they will make you.

Bow down and slave to the multi-billionaire conglomerates,
no questions, head down pitiful paycheck given.
Any problems just let them know, and they will gladly fix it.

“NEXT!!”

Milton Friedman and the Chicago Boys Neoliberal policies
found blessings in Thatcherism and Reaganomics,
re-inventing Santiago under the dictatorship
of Pinochet, a real-life puppet monster, murdering
poor Chileans who dared to oppose him.

Thousands of “the detained and the disappeared” were imprisoned in the stadium following the Washington-backed coup by General Pinochet against the democracy of Salvador Allende on September 11, 1973. — John Pilger.

The blueprint for future generations executed To a T,
the blueprint we now live and breathe every single
moment of every single day until we say, STOP!

How many more economic crashes will we allow them to graft before eliminating us undesirables?

It’s apparent the beast is not a person, the beast is an idea.

Thank you as always, Meg for giving my words a platform. 🙏 Thank you all for reading and your precious time. J. 🙏✨

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James G Brennan
Resistance Poetry

Writes free to read eclectic free verse poetry. "Everything in life is writable about" Sylvia Plath.