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[–] mechoman444@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Capitalism works just fine. Look at Denmark, Sweden, and Germany. They are all deeply capitalist countries with billionaires and a wealthy upper class. The difference is that their governments are heavily focused on welfare and social programs that actually work. That is not socialism.

Here in the United States, we have largely eliminated competition in many industries, and we all know how America's social programs compare.

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[–] wuffah@lemmy.world 0 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Yea right, let’s elect another Republican and see how that goes. The Republican Party is decidedly more racist, sexist, anti-worker, anti-choice, anti-science, anti-healthcare, anti-regulatory, pro-corporate, pro-slavery, pro-fascist, pro-war, hyper-religious, authoritarian, and anti-progressive, than even the most centrist of Democrats.

This kind of “Both-sides-ism” is a ploy to further weaken perceptions of Democratic candidates before the midterms. The most neoliberal, centrist, corporate Democrats are leaps and bounds better for America since the Right’s embrace of Trumpism. Republicans are literally dismantling our government, our society, and our economy. A vote for any Republican will be a vote for Trump, no matter who the candidate, for as long as the party continues to exist, even long after his death.

Healthy democracies and economies lie in tension between a balance of opposing sides, and managed capitalism worked pretty well until we allowed extreme wealth to penetrate its guardrails. It’s time to swing the pendulum back to the more socialist policies Americans are desperate for, and yet another Republican president is a huge shove in the wrong direction.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca -2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The delusion of Americans is that their country is the entire world.

No other country has Democrats and Republicans, it's a uniquely fucked up American thing that is a lot, but not a democracy

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[–] Wataba@sh.itjust.works -2 points 1 week ago

Noone wants capitalism to start working again.

We want to stop having a government that wants to murder minorities in the streets you dumbfuck

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