Comment by bigyabai
6 hours ago
So... socialism?
People don't "essentially want communism" by advocating for socialist policy. Serious economists will tell you that it is impossible to transition America's free market into a planned economy. We're capitalist through thick and thin.
> We're capitalist through thick and thin.
Yet there is a sizeable number of us who consider seriously promises to "lower prices of X" like it's a thing that can be done by decree. It's disappointing is all.
I love when people with 0 capital think they are capitalists. The greatest con pulled on the working class.
it's about the dream of being able to have capital though, not actually about having capital. most people do not like the idea of a death tax even though most people will never have enough wealth where it would matter.
Yes those people are rubes. "the dream of being able to have capital though", we're agreeing here. That is a pathetic dream. To have & to subjugate.
>We're capitalist through thick and thin.
Exactly, people didn't used to even imagine there was any way to change nor think free-enterprise should be compromised for any special interests, the outcome had always been negative when lobbyists got their way too often with either party.
Remember why Ronald Reagan and the bulk of the American people from both parties absolutely hated Communism so much?
It wan't mainly the economic differences from a free-market system; that barely made it onto the radar and was largely academic.
It was the dictatorship aspect that was so disgusting and anti-American as can be.
Dismal economic considerations under Communist governments were well-recognized as a logical result of dictatorship, that had been obvious for centuries.
Otherwise there wouldn't have been as much ambition for subjects to withdraw from dictator/monarchy regimes and settle in America to begin with.
> Remember why Ronald Reagan and the bulk of the American people from both parties absolutely hated Communism so much?
yes: because nationalizing industries represented a grave threat to western capitalists' bottom lines.
> It was the dictatorship aspect that was so disgusting and anti-American as can be
remember Pinochet? guess not.