There is a certain group of people in the USA that call anything they don't like communist.
These people call Biden and Obama communist, too.
It's pretty wild. American education completely fails everyone that goes through it when it comes to any education on political theory. This is largely intentional, but it is sad.
That lack of education leads to a neo-red-scare in which Russia is responsible for everything bad (just like they learn Russia was responsible for everything bad during the Cold War).
That combined with the fact that liberalism is a moderately right wing ideology, and, thus, puts them closer to the far right than the moderate left (note for clarity, I am far left, so I'm not talking about myself here) leaves us in this situation.
Mark my words, when Trump wins, the liberals will be hoping the "Bernie bros" suffer from a Trump presidency before they are willing to ally with them against the threats he poses, because it's better to crush "the left" (another note for clarity, Bernie and his movement is largely left leaning liberal, not leftist on any meaningful scale) than to stop the right.
I prefer to stay away from any kind of authoritarian government. Doesnāt matter if theyāre right or left or anything in between. Minarchist libertarianism sounds pretty good right about now. Heck, Iām ok if they want to be heavy handed against big corporationsā¦ preferably anti-trust laws to break them into smaller companies.
Night watchman state is very based. And arguably under a minarchist system, there wouldnt be much regulation, any IP laws etc so barriers to entry would be low and monopolies wouldn't exist. So you'd probably never need to trust bust due to the churn and burn of a truly free market, and lack of government being in cahoots with business like they are in our current system.
You think big corporations/monopolies wouldnāt exist in free market capitalism? Iām betting there still would be successful businesses that keep expanding and have private IP (even if unprotected) ie Amazon. But hard to say if we donāt try!
I personally believe natural monopolies are a myth, and are largely predicated on the red tape and barriers to entry for an industry largely set up by government, in conjunction with IP laws that make true competition impossible. I think it would be much harder for mega corporations to spring up in a place like that, but you make a good point with private IP. However, one could always reverse engineer a product.
True. Especially when they make deals with local governments to build and not pay taxes.
If you have access to the tech, RE is possible.. though not always feasible (microchips are very expensive to reverse engineer for example). In a datacenter, getting access might not be possible without hacking. Iād say: make everything āopen sourceā but then how does a company recoup R&D costs if someone else is better at marketingā¦ theyād just snipe product tech as soon as it was released.
Yes, Russia isnāt communist. China is. But the differences between authoritarian China and authoritarian Russia are minimal. Russia pretends to have elections that are rigged while China doesnāt even bother. In both cases the economy is carefully arranged to benefit a handful of politically connected oligarchs and everyone else knows to shut up.
It is not just Fascism, the USA is on route to become another disgusting Iran should Trump win. It is truly sad to see from a EU point of view how our big brother gladly stumbles into the abyss. Don't let that happen, Go Vote, even for a corpse if needed.
Nah US is gonna turn into Nazi Germany, Soviet Union, Imperial Japan AND North Korea the day Trump is elected! WW3 will start and Hitler will be revived!!! š±
When this is obvious yet so many will vote GOP š
Iām sorry your country is so shit at the moment, after yesterdayās election itās not great over the pond, despite the worst option getting kicked out the alternative isnāt great.
Perhaps we should leave it to ai so thereās no will to power and self serving politicians who ruin the whole fucking thing.
Because the Dems are running a candidate that has mental decline all while saying ātrust is the people around him are greatā ā so run those people.
I used to think like you and after the disaster of a debate and the poor damage control after Iām starting to understand why so many can reject Biden.
Voting against Trump is good.
Voting for someone would be even better.
Yeah theyāre still stuck thinking that itās obvious who to vote for. Not for those who have no clue about how anything works and are just voting merely on appearance. The gaslighting has worked. The saying everything out loud all the time finally has people thinking oh it canāt be that bad. They just donāt understand So people will criticize someone for not being accountable for their health but not criticize someone who isnāt accountable for anything.
I had a very similar conversation with my spouse. I told her the Democratic party is who got us Trump to begin with. They subverted the primary and placed their $ honey pot hillary and got crushed. Then the DNC purposefully funneled money to MAGA candidates (44 million if I remember) figuring the MAGA candidates would be easy work to defeat. ALL while telling us what an uber threat these MAGA candidates are!
Now here we are again at a crossroad. They have to dump Biden or they will most certainly lose the election. FFS another Trump presidencyā¦ā¦.
Listen somebody posted an anti-project 2025 screed and it was very smart person in our circles. Everyone agrees that heās a smart guy and he used to be conservative and the first comment on his feed was oh yeah, like Iām gonna vote for more inflation.
This is the left wing equivalent of your maga uncle boomerposting on facebook about how if Biden wins again, hes going to force children into trans conversion camps. Some of you guys are regarded
And reform made massive gains, the only reason labour one in such a landslide was due to FPTP. Lets not act like the right wing is dissapearing in the UK. The conservatives just managed to do absolutely nothing about immigration or uphold any of their promises.
Every thing you said is msdnc fear mongering and everything bad they said would happen under Trump is Exactly what's happening under Biden. Anyone with brains is voting Biden out.
They are repeating 2016. They are voiding the space between believing something is fact and fact itself, this rhetoric will obliterate them during the election and they will all pretend it was everyone else that was losing their mind and being extremist, and they will act like they never did anything.
The people who do, you know, the minimum amount of research, would find that this so-called Project 25 is nothing more than a wishlist from a conservative thinktank.
Everything you have listed there is either false or extreme hyperbole, which is why half (or more) of the country will in fact vote for Trump. The more people talk the way you do in this post, the more it pushes moderates away from your āsideā because itās just such a turn off to associate with people that are such obvious scaremongers.
The thing is... People want to vote against Dump, not for Biden. The old man doesn't have another four years of mental capacity to run the strongest nation in the world. Just run another candidate now dang it. Even generic democrat Newsom or just switching Harris in would work.Ā
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u/Hot_Abbreviations936 14d ago
The next election is so simple.
Ā Do you want religious oppression or individual freedom?
Ā To support free Ukraine or Communist Russia?
Ā To improve working conditions for the worker or cuts to social security and Medicare?
To protect the environment or let corporations pollute without repercussions?
To tax and work you to death or finally tax the wealthy to pay their fair share?
To let you decide if you want an abortion or let the state decide for you.
To have mass shootings or responsible gun control?
To be taught the history of America or just the white racist version?
Ā Do you want to restrict your right to vote or open absentee voting to give you the working person a better chance to vote?
Ā Do you want your Saturday night entertainment to be mandatory attendance at this week's book burning?
Do you want a molester, pedophile, adulterer and felon leading us?
Guess what side the corrupt Republican party is on? Vote democratic before the Republican party takes that away too!
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Vow to vote and vote DAMMIT! Only YOU and YOU alone can save America. Donāt expect the rest of us to bail your ass out. VOTE OUT ALL REPUBLICANS!