The question is why these popular proposals never materialize in a country that prides itself on being the world's greatest democracy?
The more important question is, why do you think a republic is a democracy?
IT cannot have any emotions.
Pride is an emotion.
Ergo, to attribute an emotion to a concept is delusional.
It's the same as attributing the emotion of _hate- to a rock.
It's ludicrous.
Facts matter.
Reality matters.
Cleaning your head of a fake reality matters.
The sentence is a fake reality.
What it comes down to is that capitalism can not solve the problems it creates. Poverty, homelessness, declining education standards, the decline in life-expectancy,
Even with free market capitalism (craplitalism) being held back for the last 100 years by communist ideologies (central banking), the empirical facts :
a) An higher increase in the standard of living for everyone over the last 100 years.
Global poverty is at a all time low.
b) Increase life expectancy up until this last few years (crpailtism/socialism kicking in)
Facts matter.
Reality matters. (except to the disingenuous who want power at any cost).
....to make it possible we must give individual profits and economic growth a lower priority.
Ergo - give corporations (which are collectives) MORE POWER?
Give the collectives - government and corporations - more power?
Education standards have dropped this last 5 decades as more marxists influencers infect the education system and try to destroy critical thought, which is essential for the low IQ lefty to gain intellectual legitimacy, and traction.
Starting to see a pattern?
Do you believe we need to address the material concerns of average people?
...global poverty levels are at an all time low.
In socialism there's this great motto: "from each according to their abilities, to each according to their needs".
'My needs are greater than my abilities' - will you then give me your hive rewards?
If you can't live by your own principles (and 'great motto's' lol) - it tells you a lot about the faith you have in your own principles.
...Translated to our capitalist reality this means that if you have more money, you contribute more to society
....translated to - WE WILL TAKE OFF YOU - BY FORCE - IF YOU ARE BETTER THAN ME AT PRODUCING THINGS.
(and then hide behind manipulative moral self righteousness rhetoric, because they have zero intellectual or moral argument, for the redistribution of wealth by coercion)
Aaaaaaaaaaand my comments get hidden again - because the socialist knows they have no argument - only envy (which a projection of their own internal psychological rage, mostly attributed to low self esteem, and a need to conform so as to feel 'safe').
RE: Are You A Socialist?