Could democratic socialism become the brand of a new generation of political actors — not just on the fringe, not just in New York City, but across the country?
Socialism failed. You have a bunch of people making excuses for it, but it obvious to anyone with any common sense that a system involving excessive central planning always winds up being an Animal Farm kind of thing. This has been proven by history but there’s people making dumb excuses about how the started conditions weren’t right and “next time it will work for sure.” Socialists are basically that old guy from Jurassic Park.
Supply side economics failed. Should be obvious that businesses aren’t benevolent organizations that are going to “create jobs” just because they have some extra money lying around. They aren’t charities, they’re businesses.
Reasonable people understand that neither extreme works. It makes sense to use more socialist policies where it makes sense to (like healthcare) and have regulated capitalism where that makes sense. The peak of human prosperity was under a capitalist system before the oil crisis of the 1970s (and before Reagan). Maybe we should go back to “we’re all Keynesian now” kind of system because that fucking worked? Instead what a lot of people learned was oil dependence is good (despite oil crises always causing economic problems) and if the wealthy are even wealthier then that’s good for everyone somehow. It’s as dumb as socialists believing some altruistic vibes by the people in power will make everything work out.
But the internet has resulted in people being incapable of understanding anything beyond “thing good” or “thing bad” and preferring slogans and populism over economic policies that have been proven to work. Compromise is considered a bad thing to those with brain rot, so people are gravitating towards radical extremes which have been proven by history to be complete failures.
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Socialism failed. You have a bunch of people making excuses for it, but it obvious to anyone with any common sense that a system involving excessive central planning always winds up being an Animal Farm kind of thing. This has been proven by history but there’s people making dumb excuses about how the started conditions weren’t right and “next time it will work for sure.” Socialists are basically that old guy from Jurassic Park.
Supply side economics failed. Should be obvious that businesses aren’t benevolent organizations that are going to “create jobs” just because they have some extra money lying around. They aren’t charities, they’re businesses.
Reasonable people understand that neither extreme works. It makes sense to use more socialist policies where it makes sense to (like healthcare) and have regulated capitalism where that makes sense. The peak of human prosperity was under a capitalist system before the oil crisis of the 1970s (and before Reagan). Maybe we should go back to “we’re all Keynesian now” kind of system because that fucking worked? Instead what a lot of people learned was oil dependence is good (despite oil crises always causing economic problems) and if the wealthy are even wealthier then that’s good for everyone somehow. It’s as dumb as socialists believing some altruistic vibes by the people in power will make everything work out.
But the internet has resulted in people being incapable of understanding anything beyond “thing good” or “thing bad” and preferring slogans and populism over economic policies that have been proven to work. Compromise is considered a bad thing to those with brain rot, so people are gravitating towards radical extremes which have been proven by history to be complete failures.
It’s probably more important to do things well than to do them based on a strict ideology.
Russia for instance was a great example of how to completely fuck up turning a country free market capitalist. And generally really just fuck up.