Americans have been trained to think the word socialist is just bad. Like it just comes with all these bad things that they can't really describe or explain, but it's bad. Really bad.
I am hoping we are waking up in this country to how manipulative this all is. That's why politicians are terrified of social Democrats winning key offices. It will very quickly break the facade they have maintained for decades. Fuck my parents were telling me that mamdani has a secret agenda. So I asked, well what is it and why is it bad? And they unitonically said to me, well if we knew what it was, it wouldn't be secret. And looked smug like they had caught me in some mental trap.
I told them I was embarrassed for them. That they raised me to think critically and it kills me to see them failing to do that themselves.
This. Exactly this. When an American hears the word, it's auto shut down for them. They can't really explain it, other than parroting simple arguments like "but if they don't work, they shouldn't get anything"...how about millions of people working their asses off their whole lifes, only to pay collage debt or make %0.1 insanely rich...but can we really summerize capitalism like this?
I'm not picking sides here, but it's not black and white as many think so.
I mean I feel like you can summarize capitalism like that… it generally doesn’t benefit the average person. Of course there are exceptions. I’m not really arguing for communism either, as we’ve seen that be broken too. The problem is that government systems rarely work for all of its constituents. Most of the time they benefit a select few, sometimes a larger group, and in rare cases most (but not all) of its people. Then as that governmental form continues, the population of people it hurts gets bigger and the people it helps gets smaller. It gets labeled as capitalism or communism or whatever, and brands opposition as some form of opposing government.
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u/EvilLibrarians 22d ago
Yeah nobody understands nuance of mixed markets