This is because neoliberalism is just oligarchy with the illusion of “democracy”. Like conservatism, it’s guaranteed to collude with corporations, concentrate wealth in the hands of the most psychopathic, and create the conditions for fascism to succeed.
Unfortunately the majority are so indoctrinated they can’t see the same patterns repeating in business and politics across all capitalist “democracies”. I mean the simple fact they all allow a domestic secret police to mass surveil everyone except themselves (for some reason, lol), and operate outside the rule of law, who can’t stop foreign or ultra wealthy bribery and corruption (for some reason, lol) as though those aren’t the greatest threat and attack vector for every democracy, should already tell you just how sick and delusional our society is.
That’s basically the politics version of malicious compliance. The voters won’t accept more dependency on the US, so they pretend to work for more independence as the people demand. All while feigning incompetence to actually fail as much as possible. After all they don’t want to anger the US- und US-connected oligarchs actually paying them.
