If you just slow down and have a think about it...that was an answer to your question; neoliberalism is not something that has emerged from voting or representative democracy.
btw, in order to have voted in the 1975 EEC referendum, you'd have to be 59 years (& 18 days) and over...so, perhaps 59 would represent a better benchmark?
And no, don't worry, I've never voted for the vermin!
ok I'll take your word for it.
I'm sure there's some reason why you've suddenly decided to shift the goalposts, no doubt you'll spring your dastardly trap at some point.
as for '
neoliberalism is not something that has emerged from voting or representative democracy'. What has it emerged from then?
Capital does what it does. Politicians are encouraged to create the opportunities for it to increase profitability. Neither can really operate in isolation from the other.
But there's more than that: within democratic countries politicians are elected and they pass the laws to eg cut taxes, denationalise, slash benefits, liberalise trade and manipulate interest rates and unemployment (& fwiw to remove exchange controls, the first act of the 1979 government). So although your word '
emerged' isn't quite right, neoliberal economics could not and would not have flourished in the quite the same way if there had not been sustained political will to nurture it.
And where does political will come from: well from the people expressed through the vote of course. Aided and abetted by expression through the rest of civil society, acting in many and varied ways to endorse, support and encourage, or to oppose, frustrate and obstruct.
To pretend that the electorate, the adult population of the country- a very substantial portion of which is working class, and a disproportionate number of which are baby boomers- has no role in how society develops is nonsensical. Completely barking.
Cut to the chase: what is your purpose in trying to prove that w/c baby boomers are innocent victims?
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