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I have a weird political orientation. I’m a semi-fascists neoliberal.
Empire requires neoliberalism. The Roman’s did their form of neoliberalism. They viewed themselves as better but protected a broad geography that encouraged trade. And you need that for empire. I don’t want to give up American hegemony which I think is a force of good.
But that doesn’t mean I’m anti-nationalist. I like Meloni in Italy. I believe in encouraging a strong America which is anti-woke. I think some of Melonis ideas like aid to families makes sense and in America we had child tax credit which Romney supported. Nationalist tend to be somewhat socialist in support of the family.
On the media it’s all propaganda now. Hunter Bidens laptop suppression illustrates that. Joe has still avoided having to answer questions on who the “big man” was.
On corporations it’s obviously they’ve been woke captured. Some of that is fear of lawsuits. Etf hasn’t helped because the left can capture the etf providers and pressure corporations even if the majority ownership stake isn’t woke, the right is correct in trying to find solutions to fight back.
Neoliberalism and nationalism are opposing forces. Neoliberalism strengthens the private sector and weakens state power. It strengthens the lobby groups that demand migration, as much migration as possible. Cheap labour and skilled labour, it wants people moving to where they're most economically efficient. It transfers wealth from less efficient parts of the nation to more efficient parts of the global economy. You had a shipbuilding industry in Glasgow? Now it's in Tianjin.
For example, take the US and EU trying to get Estonia to embrace multiculturalism. They are neoliberal entities, through and through. https://archive.ph/ZnU7w
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Quite the opposite: many empires had not just limited trade between their possessions and outside nations, colonial ones even protected their own local industry from the colonies.
Empire requires exploitation of resources. If by neoliberalism you mean the limits on government intervention in the market and barriers to trade...no.
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