And now time for a message from Kamala

[hadit]

Naw, I'd like to take us to the 1950's where 33% of the workforce was unionized and a kid could earn a living right out of High School.

That's what I'd like to see.

Sure, all you need to do is start another world war that destroys the manufacturing bases and economies of the rest of the industrialized world so we're the only player in town.

 

[JoeB131]

Sure, all you need to do is start another world war that destroys the manufacturing bases and economies of the rest of the industrialized world so we're the only player in town.

Or we could just make sure that wealth is properly distributed.

Come on, the Wealthy didn't go along with 33% unionization because they wanted to. They went along with it because they looked around the world, so Communism erupting everywhere, and decided to placate the working class before they started getting ideas.

 

[scruffy]

Message? What message?

Everyone's waiting for a message from Harris, but she's in hiding.

 

[hadit]

Or we could just make sure that wealth is properly distributed.

"Properly distributed" means that those who earn it keep it.

Come on, the Wealthy didn't go along with 33% unionization because they wanted to. They went along with it because they looked around the world, so Communism erupting everywhere, and decided to placate the working class before they started getting ideas.

I don't recall seeing you in the last meeting. When did you become one of the Wealthy?

 

[LibertyKid]

Or we could just make sure that wealth is properly distributed.

Come on, the Wealthy didn't go along with 33% unionization because they wanted to. They went along with it because they looked around the world, so Communism erupting everywhere, and decided to placate the working class before they started getting ideas.

Communism erupted because the governments forced it on the people and murdered millions while doing so. Don't pretend for one second that communism is the penultimate of societal achievements. In your world, everyone would live a single bedroom apartment doing menial work for scraps. And don't even try to express how China is some model to be imitated.

China’s Communist Party is as Shadowy and Repressive as When it Took Power 70 Years Ago

On Sept. 23, the wife of 38-year-old Chinese activist Wang Meiyu learned that her husband had died in a detention center in Hunan province, less than three months after the police detained him there. Wang had staged lone protests calling for President Xi Jinping to step down and allow democracy...

www.hrw.org

 

[Carl in Michigan]

Message? What message?

Everyone's waiting for a message from Harris, but she's in hiding.

It worked well for Biden

 

[JoeB131]

Communism erupted because the governments forced it on the people and murdered millions while doing so. Don't pretend for one second that communism is the penultimate of societal achievements. In your world, everyone would live a single bedroom apartment doing menial work for scraps. And don't even try to express how China is some model to be imitated.

Hey, guy, the 1950's called, they want their McCarthyism back.

Every revolution happens because the status quo was intolerable.

The thing is, China is moving forward, we are moving backwards. We peaked in the 1960's and it's been on a decline every since.

I don't think it's an issue of capitalism vs. Communism, it's a difference between democracy and technocracy. And right now, technocracy is winning.