Nowadays, but there was a time when you tried to link every second thread to Putin.
My pet issue is right below the sentence you quoted.
Well, as much as I pass as a leftist for all the rightists, I have no doubt that the left can be just as bad. I also already said that people are idiots.
There are two kinds of people in the world, those that simplify the world into easy categories like left and right, good and bad, and those who can see the nuance in everything (theory of relativity).
Somehow reminds me of the democratic primary as well. In that case you can also point out the obvious flaw in their thought process. The whole "Hillary is more electable than Sanders" even though some polls (read closely, Gilrandir!) said Sanders would fare much better against Trump than Clinton. Then again noone believed Trump could actually become the Republican nominee at that time either.
Of course I like Sanders because he always repeats what I've been saying for a long time, that a "system" where the "billionaire class" drains money from the 99% and tries to sell them "trickle down" economics in politics cannot have a very long future...
Even with Sanders a lot of people laugh about it or say it's just communist drivel that is not to be taken seriously, but now we have president-elect Trump...
And to try and connect the two things, I've long thought that one mistake a part of the left does is to focus too much on the socio-issues instead of the socio-economic ones. What good is equal pay for women if their jobs are rationalized away or it's just minimum wage either way? The issue is not just that blacks are kept in poverty, it's that escaping poverty is made almost impossible for everyone. I'd wager to say that quite a few of the societal issues would almost resolve themselves if the rich-poor divide were mitigated FOR EVERYONE.
While capitalism does have its virtues, it needs to be heavily restrained, mixed with heavy socialist cushions or replaced with the next economic system sooner or later.
The worst offenders in my book are still the Republicans and Libertarians who want to unshackle it even more. That will just screw over poor people even more. The whole support for small business is the worst idea when a lot of the successful business categories have such high entry barriers that you need to be a billionaire to be able to hire the required people (manufacturing chipsets in your garage? dream on...) or will nerver be able to compete with big businesses because they got more experts and economies of scale + resources on their side.
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