Bernie Sanders
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(3,533 posts)libdem4life
(13,877 posts)TIME TO PANIC
(1,894 posts)Dont call me Shirley
(10,998 posts)scottie55
(1,400 posts)Where only the poor go to jail.
They are even gonna let Bob McDonald off.
The most corrupt slimeball governor we have seen in years.
Leave it to the corporate court, and the Fascist 5.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)ChiciB1
(15,435 posts)YES, YES, YES CAPITALISM SUCKS, but UNFORTUNATELY NOBODY WENT TO JAIL!
So, let's GO GUYS, If those criminals got away with it, then WE need to pay them back! WITH UBER SOCIALISM, which by the way has the word "SOCIAL" included in it! Like, hey we already have a SUPER Social Network and EVERYBODY loves it!
OTOH, CAPITALISM has the word CAPITAL in it, that could be defined in many. many ugly nasty ways! Capital Punishment for starters!
So I'll go with a whole lotta SOCIAL stuff!
FEEL THE BERN!
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)downeastdaniel
(497 posts)passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)See what that post was in response to.
dreamnightwind
(4,775 posts)Uber socialism sounds good too, vote for Bernie and share your Uber ride with a friend.
ErikJ
(6,335 posts)which is really what it is now. The merging of state and corporate power.
senz
(11,945 posts)SammyWinstonJack
(44,130 posts)WillyT
(72,631 posts)Fuddnik
(8,846 posts)gregcrawford
(2,382 posts)... and the word, "free," in free enterprise means freedom OF responsibility, not freedom FROM responsibility.
"Capital" is money. Capitalism is the manipulation of money, preferably someone else's. In the perverted world of Wall Street banksters, the ability to lie, cheat, and steal is the measure of a person's worth, and any concerns about the social implications of their depredations are actively discouraged. In fact, a member of that wholly owned subsidiary of Goldman Sachs, the Federal Reserve, recently said that social considerations should never enter into economic calculations.
Linguists and etymologists of the world, UNITE! We need a new word for "STUPID." Any equation affecting people that does not factor in its effects on people is doomed to failure. And its the people being affected that always suffer, not the assholes doing the affecting.
When you encounter the terminally dim of wit who say the word, "socialism," like they just found half a worm in their apple, explain slowly, and in words of few syllables, that socialism simply describes a government that puts the best interests of people ahead of the best interests of banks and big business.
So there.
sabrina 1
(62,325 posts)raouldukelives
(5,178 posts)Where the people have more of a say over the fate of our natural world, and the future, or lack thereof, for all of our descendants and those of the animal world than multi-national corporate monopolies and the litany of the most vile dictators, terrorists, drug lords and usurpers of democracy the world has ever known can stash all that bloody cash.
Cash that bankers and drooling fresh MBA's cannot wait to launder. Where there is a will, there is a way. And they put that "education", that knowledge and effort to good use assisting them for big payoffs.
Eh, it is what it is. It took a long time, a lot of money, a lot of liars, and a lot of paid off politicians to turn our country and our principles from "We" to "Me".
I'm not really sure what to call their creation. Something almost diametrically opposed to the very foundations of Adam Smith Capitalism. If we get more of the same we can limp on denial for awhile longer, with Trump in charge of it, we will see it in its purest form.
passiveporcupine
(8,175 posts)I agree with him. Capitalism is not a good thing unless very strictly controlled. It has never worked well, anywhere. If you combine it with Democratic socialism, it can work, but by itself, no. And republicans want it to be totally unfettered. Which is why they can't stand the word socialism, because it means restrictions on capitalism (for the social good). They don't want social good if it impairs individual right to profit in any way.
nxylas
(6,440 posts)"Democratic socialism is better than undemocratic capitalism" has a nice symmetry to it.
Rebkeh
(2,450 posts)Duval
(4,280 posts)silvershadow
(10,336 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,831 posts)but I like it!
cer7711
(502 posts)No contest there.
"Feel the Bern", indeed!