Post-1989 politics celebrated the absence of alternatives to market globalization

Evidence

A suitable idiom was devised for the new world. British Prime Minister Tony Blair claimed that opposing globalization was like opposing the changing of the seasons, while the term Alternativlosigkeit (“alternativelessness”) settled into the German vernacular. A group of Polish poets attended the opening of the country’s first McDonald’s; Catholic priests consecrated a Coca Cola plant. Across the ocean, the Democratic Party chose “Macarena” as the theme song for its 1996 convention. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 65

Categorization

• QUESTION: The Polish-poets-at-McDonald’s and priests-consecrating-Coca-Cola anecdotes need checking before reuse — striking but easy to garble from memory.
• CANDY: The Democrats’ 1996 ‘Macarena’ theme song and Gorbachev’s Pizza Hut ad are perfectly tweetable artifacts of postpolitics.
• XREF: connects to: Post-1989 left parties dissolved into market-friendly formations — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 126