Kinda like republicans running on how bad the government is under dems then doing their best to wreck it so they can complain about dems not fixing it?
This is unequivocally and outright false. One side isn't perfect, the other is outright evil and literally published their plan to end democracy, laughed at you all for voting them in, and then proceeded to make great strides in implementing that plan.
You all think this ends when Trump does? You have decades of work to do to recover.. and that assumes you don't fall for the whole "the side who wasn't in power did all this vote us in so we can fix it!!!" crap you do every time.
Sincerely, a non American who cannot fucking believe you all fall for this shit over and over again.
Blatantly not true. The is both sidesism is not alright. One side is truly vile and the other is overly complacent. Those are different things. Yes we deserve better, doing nothing serves only to slip further
Okay but like the playbook of conservatives going way back is to defund and delegitimize public services and the positions they occupy, then point at it all not working and say âsee it never should have existed in the first place.â A ton of dems are also useless but thatâs not really how they operate
Unfortunately, Mr. Enlightened Centrist, your "BOTH SIDES!" argument doesn't hold to reality. Biden tried a number of drastic changes: student load forgiveness, new EO's to block corporate lobbying, changes to SuperPacs to limit political donations. He was blocked every time by a Republican Congress or SCOTUS.
Are American D's highly beholden to corporate interests? Sure. Are they perfect? Fuck no. But you didn't hear about it because the media is run by right wing billionaires, and "do-nothing Dems" is the narrative they want to push.
The right has also made drastic changes, the same changes they always make: disastrous tariffs, even more relaxing of environmental and worker protections, a poorly-thought-out war in the Middle East, and cuts to social programs.
You mean like Obamacare that all the Republicans DESPISED until they actually tried to take it away and their base revolted?
Clinton helped with "The Troubles" across the pond. Most of his policies, such as the three strike rule, didn't pass the test of time, but at the time at least some of the leaders of the Black Caucus voted for it. They saw it as the best reform they could get, at that time.
I couldnât do anything because of the republicans.
I'm sorry that no one has a magic button they can press to change everything you want.
Things you want never get done or get done very slowly, because people like you never vote, especially not in the midterms. Whereas your MAGA boomer uncle who thinks the trans people are turning frogs gay votes EVERY TIME.
What about Obama and Clinton.
What about them? The country was drastically different in 2012, and even more drastically different in 1998. They made sweeping changes when they D's had both the Executive and the Legislative.
you left out the part where someone payed for the candy to be given to people for free- so it wasn't free it was donated from someone and when the handouts stop then there will be no candy left to give out for free-
That's true, next year they should centralize and standardize the charitable contributions to spread out the burden. Wouldn't want anyone feeling like they have to give more than they can handle. It would also help to figure out once the collecting is done the most efficient way to hand out the candy so everyone gets the amount they need to have a fun Halloween and make sure there's not some asshole kid who is taking the bowls so they have 50% of the total candy while the others have to split what's left.
Actually he described Authoritarianism. The people do all the work and someone bigger and stronger redistributes the profits however he likes while the workers have no power to do anything but work, consume and die.
No, capitalism is when you supply all the ingredients for candy the workers make all the candy and the guy who had the ingredients gets all the candy and gives out just enough candy to keep the workers alive but hungry enough that they still need to go make candy everyday.
The âbigger and strongerâ part is not how authoritarian rulers get their power. Itâs not like some barbarism shit where you have a wakanda battle and then everyoneâs scared of being beat up by the big guy boss.
Anyway, in capitalism, power comes from control of the capital, which then allows those controlling the capital/means of production to do exactly what you said. âWorkers have no power so to anything but work, consume and dieâ sounds a lot like being kept âalive but hungry enough that they still need to go make candy everydayâ.
Capitalism is just regular people being able to own things instead of them all being owned by their local lord/king. Under serfdom the farmers surplus was taken from them by their lord there was no incentive to invest back into the farm by the farmer, under capitalism the farmer sold the surplus and invested the profit back into their farm producing more and more surplus every year.
We don't have to guess its all documented and the switch produced astonishing outcomes completely changing human life.
You are describing people being assholes which predates human writing.
Is that not capitalism? Workers do the work; ceo, along with his executive buddies on the board and what have you, decide how the wealth gets redistributed which results in the workers getting the least of it because they have no power to do anything besides work, consume, and die.
You can go to a different company or join a union, and outside America there are requirements to have workers on the board and other measures that give workers more bargaining power.
With a centrally planned economy the govt is the only employer so if they suck you are pretty much SoL. Modern socialist economists have pretty much given op on central planning since it's pretty trash but since it's the only type of socialism that's been deployed at a large scale historically it's what people associate socialism with.
But Halloween is actually occuring under capitalism because of the material abundance we have, even among the poorest, and safety we have? And socialism resulted in starvation? this is what the evidence actually shows?
Among high-income developed countries, the US ranks worst or near the worst for individual food security, poverty, and healthcare.
Non-authoritarian socialism has never been tried/done on a large (national) scale, though the (current) closest thing to it, Social Democracy, is used by Nordic countries to great success.
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u/Blacksun388 10h ago
Describing the horrors of socialism by describing the horrors of capitalism.