Sure, if you can point to a successful, truly socialist economy that ever worked. That would require a voluntary rejection of the lust for power and the greed for possessions. Human nature always seems to screw that up. Forced socialism, aka communism, still resulted in a hierarchy of elites looking down on the proletariat as we have seen in those 20th century experiments. Remember all those five year plans the Soviets insisted would result in prosperity? Remember the Russian sarcasm about “They pretend to to pay us and we pretend to work” jokes. European socialism is capitalism on a leash with a social component, and then only because they have depended on the military might of the U.S. since WWII for their security. Even though NATO requires them to spend at least 2% of their GDP on defense they have not done so. They had plenty of money to spend on social programs.
Whenever you post about politics you really show your fox “news” brainwashing. So yes, European “socialism” is really capitalism with social programs and government oversight. I have news for you, that’s exactly what the US runs on. Have you heard of social security? For frack’s sake it has SOCIAL in its name. SEC, FAA, FDA… Regulatory bodies to control businesses and preserve the common good. Do you want roads, working hospitals with safe medicine, airplanes that don’t fall from the sky, safe food, clean air and water? That’s not what out of control capitalism brings. A perfect example is the price of insulin, a perfectly easy and inexpensive drug to produce that has seen its price artificially inflated IN THE US ONLY to the point some people died because they could no longer afford it. Sorry for the rant, please don’t post stupid things, thanks.
Not to mention that the entire context for this is Apple shareholders. So it's fair game to decry them as socialists, but when pulled up on it there's an instant trigger effect of a pre-prepared anti-socialism screed and the pompous demand becomes to "point to a successful, truly socialist economy that ever worked". Point me to where these Apple shareholders were advocating a country-wide "truly socialist economy". Or yeah, just spare us your miserable non-contributing sourness.
Hell it's not even as if any of the proposals won, and still these Fox "News" numpties whine like little victim snowflakes. It's all so mind numbingly tiresome in its ignorance and its sheer patheticness.
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Hell it's not even as if any of the proposals won, and still these Fox "News" numpties whine like little victim snowflakes. It's all so mind numbingly tiresome in its ignorance and its sheer patheticness.