Posted on 03/07/2018 6:54:05 AM PST by PROCON
In the United States, weve arrived at a pair of mutually exclusive convictions: that liberal, capitalist democracies are guaranteed by their nature to succeed and that in our Trumpist moment they seem to be failing in deeply unsettling ways. For liberals and by this I mean inheritors of the long liberal tradition, not specifically those who might also be called progressives efforts to square these two notions have typically combined expressions of high anxiety with reassurances that, if we only have the right attitude, everything will set itself aright.
Hanging on and hoping for the best is certainly one approach to rescuing the best of liberalism from its discontents, but my answer is admittedly more ambitious: Its time to give socialism a try.
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Elizabeth Bruenig is an idiot.
Uh. No.
If you want socialism, move to a country that already has it.
You would probably be back soon.
I want benevolent socialism that actually works (i.e. a 'unicorn').
For Elizabeth and her ilk, it’s way past time for some “sensible speech control.”
These people need brought out into our home town square and hung. They are already brain dead anyway.
Sorry princess. You might want to do a little research on the bull**** you are spewing. Once you “give socialism a try”, a lot of blood has to be spilled to get your freedom back. DON’T BE A DUMBSH*T, READ A HISTORY BOOK EVERY NOW AND THEN. If YOU want to “give socialism a try”, move to a socialist country, b*tch!
As Winston Churchill said, socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy.
I have a big problem with her false choice. How is capitalism failing inthis trumpist moment?
Also I had to look her up. She looks like she is a teenager. The last thing this country needs is for it to be re engineered by someone with no life experience.
Does that word salad come with ranch dressing?
Venezuela, Cuba, North Korea, Just to name some current examples - This moronic woman probably never read William Bradford’s account of the Plymounth Plantation - America’s first recorded (and failed) attempt at socialism.
Idiots like the author is why we should raise the voting age to 35.
Then you don't want socialism. Socialism is the world's worst economic plan for commodifying labor.
socialism: because people still have money to take at gunpoint with with DNC-trash can try to buy votes with.
Someone should put together a list of countries that have “tried socialism” that have collapsed during the existence of the United States.
The guy is level headed. He has shit running out of both ears.
What a bunch of blather.
I quit on the first sentence which was the first paragraph.
Feel the Bern !
I don’t think anyone at the WaPo will ever be mistaken for a genuine ‘intellectual’.
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