Lordy be, no, really

From there, it was just a step to consider how a politics of care might be very different from the stereotypical politics of the assumed “normal person”, which is common to all neoliberal political parties at present, including both Reform and Restore.

What we realised was that we had found the defining difference between those neoliberal politics of slightly varying hues and the politics of care. All neoliberalss, including those on the far-right, assume, paternalistically, that there is a “normal person” whose needs they must satisfy. The politics of care is fundamentally different. It presumes that the role of politics and of the state is to assist a person to fulfil their own purpose, which need not be normal at all, and around which diversity is permitted.

It was as if a canyon had opened, a rift had been discovered, or even a new paradigm had been noted. I confessed to some excitement as a consequence.

Having worked out that one size does not fit all the man still insists he’s against neoliberalism, classical liberalism, markets and choice and continues on with the asnwer of MOAR STATE and MOAR TAX.

Sigh.

The entire point – along this axis at least – of markets and liberalism, neo- or not is that folk vary, their desires, potentials and possibilities vary and so we need a system that leaves folk be to live their own life their own way. It’s the very point of liberty in fact. Sure, sure, a helping hand here and there but he’s doscovered the very point of the system he fulminates against.

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