Patriot52
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Like the OP said, there is no pure Democracy/Capitalism or Socialist Republic. They are all blends, just like there was never a pure Communism. There are workable Communist societies like China and Vietnam and oppressive ones like North Korea. It's corruption and big money that infiltrates all of these systems. It comes down to greed for money or power and usually both.
It is possible to have Capitalism and minimize the income disparity that usually results. It just requires the right tax system and government regulations. Rich people always want to keep their money, even if it is more than they and their children can spend in a lifetime. There will always be ignorant people that cannot be educated to do technical jobs. There will always be people caught in unfortunate situations. The government needs to provide a safety net for those people. The government needs to provide training in the trades for those that cannot achieve a college degree.
This is precisely why we need big government and high taxes on the top 1%. Income disparity is what tears a country apart and eventually causes civil war. We need big government to prevent income disparity and large parts of the population being impoverished. More and more of this will occur as menial jobs are automated.
This is why the Trump/GOP tax breaks for the rich are exactly the WRONG thing to be doing.
Sooooo, you consider the murder of 100 million people during the Cultural Revolution to be "workable". Is that correct?
Irrelevant to the current situation in China.
You consider murdering tens of thousands of blacks in the south in the US "workable"?
You consider doing chemical agent and radiation experiments on the encarcerated in the US "workable"?
You consider imprisoning tens of thousands of Japanese immigrants during WWII " workable:?
Both countries have moved on.