Posted on 04/24/2016 11:37:54 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Bernie Sanders is not going to be president. But in defeat he has accomplished something extraordinary, probably something more important than anything he could have achieved in four or eight frustrating years in the White House. For the first time since the end of the Cold War — and perhaps since the beginning of the Cold War — large numbers of Americans have begun to ask questions about capitalism.
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The barf and hurl alert should be obvious. This time I don’t think the producers are going to be the ones lined up for mass extermination. It will be Cowboys and Communists this time.
Wrong. The current occupying Marxist beat Bernie to it.
But it will always be the CORRECT answer.
Socialism is never the answer. No matter how many times it has been tried - it has never worked.
I was in Russia in 1992. Anyone who could see the destruction of the human spirit brought by Socialism (and Communism, which is forced Socialism) would never even consider it as an alternative to Capitalism.
I did a bicycle trip in the USSR in 1989 for a few weeks (with my official government "minder" in tow). Tooled around Moscow for a few days, then in Novgorod and a bunch of other towns in the interior, then to Leningrad and then to Estonia and Latvia. The government cancelled my permission to go to Lithuania because of pro-Democracy protests there.
The only place to get decent liquor, cigarettes, chocolate, perfume, etc. were the stores that only government workers and foreigners were allowed to use... the "regular" markets were horribly bare most of the time. The nice weekend dachas on the rivers were exclusively owned by government people.
I had never seen such a dismal place... at least not since my travels in Communist Yugoslavia in the early 1970's.
Lets all give a great big belch in honor of the NEA!
Gee, no one's ever done that before.
Nothing wrong with questioning capitalism, it can be good or can be bad, depending on the people.
But Socialism can never be good.
>But Socialism can never be good.
Yep. Been tried over and over again and the results are always awful.
In this cycle we’re ALL questioning the corporate-government cabal through which the “elites” extract economic rents from the “non-elites”.
the left has been questioning capitalism since the communist manifesto. that is nothing new
Why dont we just repeal the capitalism law?
What? You say there is no capitalism law?
Capitalism is what you get with freedom.
Socialism is what you get with state control.
So really the difference between capitalism and socialism is freedom.
capitalism-freedom
socialism-no freedom
Bernie’s greatest legacy is that in a youth worshipping society that generally pays no attention to wisdom from their elders... that a communist fossil who even managed to get kicked out of hippie commune for not working... somehow has millions of young idiots practically worshipping him. Maybe somewhere in that twisted scenario there is hope that one day young people may find another older role model who isn’t a lazy old communist sluggard.
It is always okay to question capitalism. We should always question our premises.
What is not okay is to question capitalism and not question socialism.
Because that is what usually happens.
Wwe don’t have capitalism. We have an oligarchy with crony capitalism wher the richest companies buy favorite treatment by the government.
We should stop using the leftist-derived term “Capitalism” in favor of “Free Enterprise.”
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