Socialism was a reality already. The institutional elites wanted to demonize labour unions and calls them communists. That’s why democrats got their voter base post integration. Other parties became targets for liberal demonization and so they consolidated to the democrat party since republicans were pro segregation during the civil rights era.
Honestly we don’t even live in a free market. Government subsidies and corporate welfare is a way bigger burden than social security and food stamps. The top 1% own 50% of Americans wealth$. The top 10% own 80+ Percent ir the wealth in America.
Socialism is just an attempt to solve the income inequality that spawned from letting capitalists, industrialists, and corporations to shape our policies and influence the government.
Since the 1970’s the wealth gap only got worse. Trickle down economics did not work, even though Milton Friedman won a Nobel peace prize for it. He believe that the rich should focus on getting more rich and getting rich should be everyone’s motivations. But once wealth is so unequally distributed that America families go hungry or communities lack opportunities or health as a Direct result of elitists actions, then the system needs a reset because we already messed up but our “leaders” keep denying it. Hence our debt ceiling issue. Politicians don’t like looking bad so it hasn’t been raised, and our poverty line hasn’t been raised because no president wants to confirm that yes our poor are getting poorer.
The problem is lack of accountability for corporations, governments (police), and the elites.
Rome did not fall for being too big. Rome fell for being too big to regulate itself. Too big to stop the elites from feudal war with each other. That’s why there were wealthy families and servant family in Europe, monarchies rose in the Middle Ages from the ashes of the already existing divides of have and have nots.
TlDr; socialism is not a problem. It’s another scapegoat to distract us from the wealth gap problem.
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This why I don't trust that dude Andrew yang. Trying to give everybody 2k a month.
Work for everything you have man.
The only room for socialism his safety nets for people on hard times. And out a time limit for that.
You think I wanted to do construction. And part time bartend in my younger 20s. Get my ass up to go to trade school.
No but I'm doing great now.
I come from low middle class not poor but not rich either.
I'm not into rewarding people for being lazy or stupid. We all have 24 hours.
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Laugh and take my but back to Africa like all the racists on here want me to do.
If I wished to reject Socialism I would have to refuse my Social Security, my Medicare, stay off those socialist roads, denounce those socialist unions I once belonged to. I'd have to demand that children as young as 6 be put to work in factories again, and everyone would have to work 16 hour days, 7 days a week without lunch or breaks of any kind. Remember, we're not the Soviet Socialist Republic. It may sound free but it was and is one of the most repressive forms of government ever invented. It and the NAZI party are one and the same. NAZI means National Socialism. It had absolutely nothing to do with a Socialist regime nor freedom.
Celebrate. Because only a lunatic could argue that the past 40 years of Reaganite BS - with the highest wealth disparity in the history of any country in the history of humanity - is anything but a total and complete failure.
Here's the thing. It's really easy to be an advocate for socialism when the economy is going well. However, when the shortages and shit hits the fan with inflation, people are going to start feeling pain at stores and the gas pump. At that point, most people's political views will shift and they will demand less socialism.
Entropy is going to continue matter what side is of the political isle is in power and what ideas they put in place. I'm just hopping when entropy causes the entire system to breakdown it will force the childish bickering to stop and force everyone to work together.
@t-8900 : Complacency and arrogance aren't a "conservative" problem. They're human nature problems across the board. The Soviets eventually ignored cracks in their armor too.
Conservatives are still unwilling to do what's necessary to protect their own ways of life and so eventually their relevancy is going to fall to others. I dont agree with any one way of doing things. I can say that people who are gung hoe on having things stay a certain way usually do things that would be considered morally horrid. But hey at the end of the day the ultimate form of respect by a hive mind is power which keeps them in check.
@t-8900 : Too many Americans on both the left and right are suckers for branding. Kansas City Shuffle. Operation Mockingbird is built on this. The masses have been deceived for decades. It begins early. Put a cute leprechaun on a piece of cardboard, and kids won't care that they're eating paint thinner.
We’re already basically just printing money to pay for things, which is what socialism eventually devolves into. We’re skipping all the advantages of socialism and going straight to late stage with turns into authoritarianism.
Both Europe and the USA are so socialist they could not go further with that without becoming totalitarian communist (which is the worst imperial capitalist, in fact, that there is).
No, it's not. It's being pushed on everyone. If it takes hold in America, I will gather fellow veterans, friends, and family and take back our country the old-fashioned way. Violently.
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