>>778053The reason the average leftist is unhappy is because they have an inherently unhappy disposition, which they channel into finding (mostly true) flaws with the world that explain and justify that feeling.
That said, there is a certain leftist sympathy with overregulation. Airline deregulation for example has been an unalloyed good in all senses except environmental (and the regulated system was much worse on that front per passenger mile) but instinctively a leftist will pile this into the list of bad things that neoliberalism did
I'm actuality neoliberalism's big flaw is that the constituency for tax cuts is much bigger than the constituency for deregulation, so it ultimately atrophied into an anti-state project when, in fact, the optimal configuration would've been moderate-high taxation and large scale cash welfare provision. Instead we got retrenchment that in many cases increased arbitrary state interference in the name of penny pinching, followed - in the backlash - with an even greater preference for using regulation to achieve ends most efficiently met through taxation and redistribution.
Private Vs public is a false dichotomy on the whole. Nowhere is this clearer than in the UK where neoliberal/libertarian hero Margaret Thatcher created a range of regulated LARP markets when privatising state owned enterprises below market cost for political gain and patronage.