Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:15 pm
gaffo wrote: ↑Sat Sep 26, 2020 11:06 pm
Immanuel Can wrote: ↑Sun Sep 20, 2020 8:47 pm
I can't see that Socialism fits that bill at all. It fails all three of your tests.
Denmark, Sweden, Norway, and France are doing well enough. in spite of their Socialism - lol.
None of them is actually Socialist. They have some distributive policies that swing Socialist, but their economic engines are Capitalist, through and through. Here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RO7wgS5tdz4&t=126s and here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MerkGUx-2V4. There are a whole lot more like this, if you care.
ok, if you say so, I'm not tied to "Socalism" per say, and if my take on it is not what they have, fine.
i wish my America could be more like those nations - have to remove Citizens united (thanks Alito) first, but will not happen, 1-pecenters rule America and the american public have lost faith in their voice (they know longer really have one - but are also ignorant of history, and do not love it and my Constitition and what is lost). and why Trump was elected the first time.
my nation is fucked, its that simple,and Joe ave, lost faith in the System 20 yrs ago (Bush Jr with is illegal Tragnam war was the final nail - and "The media" that went along with the sham, instead of being the "4th estate" and doing the job to call out that sham instead!).
America is too far gone now, we are fucked.
with our decay of empire, will be the obvous, China the next empire (Chinese - good folks - had 2 best friends from there in college - utterly nonpolitical though - sadly and why XI is able to rule there) - so i do not see the Chinese Joe Ave reforming their gov and saving the world from global facism via china in 2100.
only hope are the Indians - though they have Modi - another Trump and so have backslid, my hope is the bigger picture, the indians have a love for Enlightenment concepts/rule of law via their prior Brit colonialism - so in the best of all possible worlds we might have an India, as a global power in 2100 - limiting that of China and on behalf of fallen-former empires of Europe/America/Austrialia/etc.............
it really is up to the Indians - they - unlike the Chinese have an education and appreciation of Western ideals - politically (not religously of course) - either they stand up or fall and affirm Modi the worst of their phyche (Buddist nationalism).