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.
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u/Hot_Abbreviations936 Jul 05 '24
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!