How about you define “socialism “. Cause cons seem to think socialism = “things I don’t like”.
To be fair, leftists have been defining socialism as things like Police Protection and Fire. Roads. Etc.
So, when you have a bunch of people advocating for socialism without knowing the meaning, I think you may have some influence from those who know we will never accept real socialism until we all don't know what the **** it means anymore.
Socialism is exclusive government ownership or control of the means of production. Communism is pretty much the same thing, but under the incredible delusion that such a system can work without a government enforcer.
See the idiot post below this one.
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We have a mixed economy, not pure capitalism, and not pure socialism. Trump's message last night in the SOTU was nothing more than red meat tossed to the ignorant members of his base.
The conservative movement has always wanted less regulations, and to privatize as much of our economy as they could put their greedy little fingers on.
The liberal movement wants health care to be a right, and to be affordable, while the conservative movement wants to see it profitable.
The liberal movement's ideology was founded on social justice and the social contract theory during the age of enlightenment; a reaction to the Monarchies which supported the clergy and the nobles and exploited all others.
The labor movement began when the people in trades began to form Guilds, the first form of power of the People.
Today the Right, aka the Republican Party has devolved to a middle ages ideology,
we got our, **** the rest of you. It has created a social strata of the haves and the have nots.
The election in November last was a revolution of sorts, when the educated class articulated a growing divide between the few haves, and the many have not's, can not survive in a democracy.
Notwithstanding the far right meme that we were not founded to be a democracy, they argue we are a constitutional republic is at best a half-truth; we are a nation of laws, laws created by those we the people grant temporary power to promulgate. And, as Jefferson so well described,
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, — That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it"; not better description of democracy can be written is so concise form.
Today more than 2/3 of our citizens recognize that autocracy has invaded our social system, and the time has come to recognize the
"Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness".