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New Study Confirms Medicare for All Would Save 114,000 Lives and more than $1 Trillion a Year
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It's actually capitalism why we have fascism.
In fairness, properly regulated capitalism is doing a bit better in many places.
I'm pretty sure that's just a blip, a temporary roadblock on capitalism's path in those places. It'll only last until the right, or rather, the wrong people gain political power in those regions -- something that capitalists work towards endlessly. Once some morally flexible political elements gain power, the wealthy who put put those elements in place, will simply bribe them into deregulating everything they can which will allow capitalism to run its natural course.
Things looked pretty good in the USA for a long time too. Then the capitalists started supporting political candidates that convinced the public that the very regulations that protected people and the environment were really bad things that were hurting people. They got voters to believe that deregulation would allow everyone to be millionaires and everything would be puppies and butterflies forever.
We all know what deregulation really led to, of course. But as the saying goes, it's far easier to fool a person than it is to convince them they've been fooled. Getting people to admit they were fooled, especially against an endless barrage of propaganda from the capitalists, has been seemingly impossible. The fools, supported by their capitalist masters, are clinging to power and blocking all efforts to fix our problems. Probably because if the problems do get fixed, it'll be the final proof that the fools were fooled in the first place, and they can't allow that. They'd rather live out their days in squalor, breathing poison until they finally lay down in the graves they've dug for us all.
Well, first of all, I agree pretty much with everything you said, basically. lol.
I'm not sure, though, that I've seen a better system than regulated capitalism anywhere. I think the countries that are doing the best in the world right now are just that, and that deregulation and just flat out oligarchial corruption is the problem in the US more than the foundation of capitalism.
And I explicitely agree that there is constant pressure toward that corruption. Countries have to constantly fight to keep it at bay, or perhaps they lose progress and have to fight to regain progress.
I just haven't seen anything that works better. Like how I've heard it said "Representative democracy is the worst form of government… except all the others." heh