If you hate Elon Musk, he'll control your privatized health care. If you hate Trump, he'll control your nationalized health care.
The people you do like won't always be in power.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
We do that so people could not get jobs because they don't feel like it.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
What you're saying is that the label of socialist is being coopted by people that aren't actually socialists. The Scandinavians are capitalists. If more capitalism is the objective of socialism now, then the word doesn't mean much of anything anyways.
Libertarian Socialism isn't inclusive or collective. It's about people who can choose to help others, it's more akin to classical right-wing (fantasy) trickle-down economics. It provides no secure safety nets and relies on people being altruistic when they have the means to support others. It's hogwash.
Well they call themselves Social Democrats. But the Right wont let that label stick. They insist on calling them Socialists and Communists in order to scaremonger people into not voting them.
I'm fine with the intent, it's the abusers I take issue with. A money for a huckster is less money for the intended purpose.
__________________ What CDTM believes;
Never let anyone else define you. Don't be a jerk just to be a jerk, but if you are expressing your true inner feelings and beliefs, or at least trying to express that inner child, and everyone gets pissed off about it, never NEVER apologize for it. Let them think what they want, let them define you in their narrow little minds while they suppress every last piece of them just to keep a friend that never liked them for themselves in the first place.
That's still awfully vague. Not inclusive of whom, or what? Who chooses to provide for whom? Your comparison to trickle down economics is particularly lost on me; what is the similarity between an ideology of subsidizing the capitalist class, and an ideology that rejects the capitalist class' right to exist?
With regard to safety nets, I'm aware that things can get messy when discussing hypothetical forms of society, but for Chomsky's part, I haven't heard of him prescribing anything for the U.S. welfare state other than its expansion? It's not like I'm an expert on the guy's politics though, maybe you can enlighten me.
im going to disagree about the vagueness of my response. I think I defined it adequately. You may not like my answer, perhaps you can explain why you think my comparisons are vague.
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