Neoliberalism is deadly, but you wouldn't know it because of the cultural hegemony it wields.

Thiols are often referred to as mercaptans. The term mercaptan is derived from the Latin mercurium captans (capturing mercury) because the thiolate group bonds so strongly with mercury compounds.

The odours of thiols are often strong and repulsive, particularly for those of low molecular weight. Skunk spray is composed mainly of low molecular weight thiol compounds. These compounds are detectable by the human nose at concentrations of only 10 parts per billion.
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Natural gas distributors began adding thiols, originally ethanethiol, to natural gas, which is naturally odourless, after the deadly 1937 New London School explosion in New London, Texas. Most gas odourants utilized currently contain mixtures of mercaptans and sulfides, with t-butyl mercaptan as the main odour constituent.
http://www.toxipedia.org/display/toxipedia/Mercaptans

If we are going to be exposed to bad gas we need to be warned. Instead, for two generations, the wealthy who run our planet for their own wasteful enjoyment have supplemented divide and rule with mass cultural propaganda. They have no incentive to add cultural mercaptan so that we can know when we are being exposed.

Its anonymity is both a symptom and cause of its power. It has played a major role in a remarkable variety of crises: the financial meltdown of 2007‑8, the offshoring of wealth and power, of which the Panama Papers offer us merely a glimpse, the slow collapse of public health and education, resurgent child poverty, the epidemic of loneliness, the collapse of ecosystems, the rise of Donald Trump. But we respond to these crises as if they emerge in isolation, apparently unaware that they have all been either catalysed or exacerbated by the same coherent philosophy; a philosophy that has – or had – a name. What greater power can there be than to operate namelessly?

So writes George Monbiot in an excellent piece in the Guardian today.
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/apr/15/neoliberalism-ideology-prob...

Please read the piece. It tells us much about where we are and why we are here. When Keynesian pump-priming hit the wall in the 1970's, the global right wing was ready and pounced.

Now we must add our own cultural mercaptan and design a new alternative. To me, this alternative is economic, social, and cultural rights-based global deep democracy--liberty and justice for all, not grotesque privilege for the few.

In the U.S., Sanders is beginning to put cultural mercaptan into the bad gas silently streaming through a decaying political system. We can also begin to see a lovingly revolutionary path forward to clean air, literally and figuratively.

I so hope that he/we will prevail, but if he/we don't, this means that holding one's nose and voting for Clinton would be acceptance of the bad gas without even demanding the warning. I may still end up doing that, but it is really bad gas brothers and sisters. It would stink to high heaven, but not because Clinton is an honest mercaptan kind of stink.