The affirmative project only works to extend neoliberalism and imperialism into new spaces, producing informal imperial orders that provide colonized peoples freedom to participate in the capitalist social order.
Ayers, 2009
[Alison, Dept. of Political Science at Simon Fraser Univ. in Canada, “Imperial Liberties: Democratisation and Governance in the ‘New’ Imperial Order.” Political Studies: 2009, Vol. 57, 1-27, Accessed Onlive via Academic Search Premeir] /Wyo-MB
Notions of empire … (neo)liberal global order.
This neoliberal stranglehold has made the modern public into political zombies; totally oblivious and uninterested in modern politics. True democracy cannot exist under these conditions, and we have seen a new authoritarianism working in its place. Sovereignty only works in the interests of the rich and interests, producing war machine committed to the creation of death worlds and has reduced all of social existence to a form of social death.
Giroux 11 (Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, “Zombie Politics, Democracy, and the Threat of Authoritarianism - Part II”, Book Excerpt from ‘Zombie Politics and Culture’, June 1st 2011, http://www.truthout.org/zombie-politics-democracy-and-threat-authoritarianism-part-i/1306932037 KB)
The long dark … and everyday life.
At the point United States ‘democracy’ is simply a guised version of authoritarianism, any kind of democracy assistance will inevitably fail. Instead of being interested in the actual democratic projects there, we seek to further the US interests. The affirmative only risks extending neoliberal authoritarianism into new spaces.
These colonialist ways of thinking produce the rationalization for genocide and cultural annihilation that renders colonized bodies as sub-human, they make forms of violent subjugation thinkable and domination inevitable
Lissovoy, 2010
[Noah, University of Texas at Austin, Dept. of Curriculum and Instruction, “Decolonial Pedagogy and the Ethics of Global.” Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Vol. 31, No. 3, July 2010, 279-293, Accessed online via Academic search premier] /Wyo-MB
In a second moment … the culture industry).
The Alternative is to engage in critical pedagogy of the neoliberal system.
The role of the ballot is to vote for the best method of achieving authentic democracy.
Use this debate space to embrace a militant utopianism of resisting the neoliberal order that taints democracy and to contest the workings of oppressive power and domination.
Giroux 03 (Henry A. Giroux currently holds the Global TV Network Chair Professorship at McMaster University in the English and Cultural Studies Department, “Dystopian Nightmares and Educated Hopes: the return of the pedagogical and the promise of democracy” Policy Futures in Education – Volume 1 – Number 3 – 2003 http://www.wwwords.co.uk/pdf/freetoview.asp?j=pfie&vol=1&issue=3&year=2003&article=3_giroux_pfie_1_3_web KB)
Against the increasing … democratic social transformation.
