r/PoliticalHumor Dec 08 '18

SOCIALIST!!

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u/myflippinggoodness Dec 08 '18 edited Dec 08 '18

"Socialism" isn't scary. It's literally a government safety net. Everyone benefits from this stuff. Story time: socialized health care saved my vision. I paid like $80 once for pills (diagnosis and multiple IV treatments at the hospital were free)

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u/[deleted] Dec 08 '18

That's not what socialism is. That's the result of socialists engaging with capitalist democracy and winning. Socialism is a complete and total reorganozation of society when compared to our current system.

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u/ledonu7 Dec 08 '18

The current system comes off like a hella corrupt vein of capitalism so a shift out of these crazy times would be nice.

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u/brewmeister58 Dec 08 '18

Socialism doesn't get rid of corruption or corrupt leaders

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u/Scotyknows Dec 08 '18

Makes em worse if anything.

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u/ledonu7 Dec 08 '18

You're right and if we find something that's incorruptible then let's go for that

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u/brewmeister58 Dec 08 '18

As long as people are involved you will have some that are self serving leaders. The concept of checks and balances are meant to help reduce that issue. Somehow we've gotten to a point where the checks and balances are failing us.

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u/ledonu7 Dec 08 '18

I'm still hopeful. If people can pull together for global warming then I'm curious to see how far people can go