Wars, Ballrooms, Arches and Reflecting Pools be damned.
We were at war every single day of the obama admin. That comment isnt as pointed as you think. Private fundraising will always be part of a presidency. Yes, we need to quit doing **** that isnt inside our own borders.
There are plenty of us on the left who were never all that enamored with BHO, Biden, Clinton, Kerry, Gore. What the blurb calls “woke 2.0” is all of the stuff the corporate dems have willfully under-delivered on for so long that there is a bit of a revolt brewing. Call it Marxist foolishness all you want, but every day, more people are fed up with our intractable political cartel; we may have missed our chance to work incrementally. We could have proactively managed our economy to favor working people, but we didn’t, and people are going to become more impatient, impulsive and angry; it is a predictable response to the predatory economic environment that has been allowed to form. You have a bunch of people in power who have been pushing the pendulum so far to one side that it is going to very soon slip above and beyond their fingertips and come crashing back in the other direction.
Ive said it a 1000 times. If there is not an obama esq flip at the midterms the dem party is going to fracture and Joe Biden ( as an old white dude) will get thrown under the bus.
I tend to agree there is an intractable political cartel that has been in an unholy alliance with big corporate spenders. However, the issues that we see are being blamed on capitalism and free markets when it is the marriage of big capital and politics that is the problem. A crony capitalist model, like we have post citizens united, is not a truly free market. It advantages the donor class who happen to also be big corporations or their leadership.
The free market is propped up by the government. Trump proves that everyday. He doesn't work for regular Americans. He works to prop up his Wall Street buddies.
Agree capitalism needs guardrails for sure. But even with guardrails it is a more efficient model than socialism. I also worry because capitalism has been abused that we swing to a socialist ideology that on the surface seems more egalitarian, but in reality is much more prone to abuse because it lacks the effective signaling that markets provide.
To be fair, the same could be said about any market based financial instrument that a parent would use.
I think we also see this, at least from an employee standpoint, in salary stagnation that has been caused by making the stockholder king in the publicly traded corporate world.
But don't you think that the guardrails on capitalism are inherently socialist in nature - regulations that benefit workers and consumers alongside programs to benefit citizens in general?
To a small degree sure. They definitely aren’t as socialist as Trump’s government taking an ownership stake in private corporations.
Gulf of America!!! Department of War!!!
To be honest, I always consider the government ownership of the means of production to be communistic whereas the redistribution of wealth without government ownership to be socialistic.
Many have tax incentives tied to their use in various forms. Tomato tomato.
Ironically, it was what resulted from Obamacare that shifted my view to favoring a more publicly funded system where we eliminate the egregiously unnecessary pork from the insatiable middlemen (private insurance).
This is a great point, which is why those who accused Obama of being a “socialist” were simply providing incontrovertible evidence they don’t know WTF they are talking about (especially since almost all of them became Trump supporters).
It all comes back to whether the Joker created Batman or Batman creater the Joker.
Which government programs would you turn over to the "open market"?
This is the point.
Social Security.
That is the exact opposite of what needs to happen. The government doesnt make a single thing more efficient, they just print the money they need to remain existing.
Yes, Obama caved entirely too much on supporting the Republican wars he inherited. But he did wind down one. And Biden wound down the other. Quibble how you want about the winding-down processes, Democrats finally got us out of them.
You seem to be of the belief being born implies you need to be taken care of by society.
And privatization benefits no one but the ones at the top of the food chain.
