Posted on 03/07/2018 11:31:22 AM PST by C19fan
In the United States, we’ve arrived at a pair of mutually exclusive convictions: that liberal, capitalist democracies are guaranteed by their nature to succeed and that in our Trumpist moment they seem to be failing in deeply unsettling ways. For liberals — and by this I mean inheritors of the long liberal tradition, not specifically those who might also be called progressives — efforts to square these two notions have typically combined expressions of high anxiety with reassurances that, if we only have the right attitude, everything will set itself aright.
Hanging on and hoping for the best is certainly one approach to rescuing the best of liberalism from its discontents, but my answer is admittedly more ambitious: It’s time to give socialism a try.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
The stupid just drips off of this snowflake
I have grey hairs older than that and twice as knowledgeable.
Someone got a really good batch of crack this week to be this delusional.
Our stated purpose is securing the "Blessings of Liberty" to a specific "posterity." Crack pots with egalitarian theories simply have no right--that is no legal right--to tamper with the American heritage,
BullStalin
Does she split her paycheck equally with everyone she meets in a week?
Has she tried a Tide Pod yet?
Some say they are delicious nom nom nom
Also Detroit and San Francisco.
Also Detroit and San Francisco.
These idioctic millennials are the future leaders of this country. I am going to be so screwed in my senior years.
Try it somewhere else, dipchit!
Is she too young to have read any of the recent stories about Venezuela?
There are worlds outside my ability to fathom. This is one.
Never underestimate the power of ignorant millennials in large groups.
If you are sincere at exposing the ignorance of those espousing Socialism all one need do is ask; how does your idea of socialism reconcile with the Supreme Law of the Land?
...because that is what it always boils down to. Liberals, they just don't get it...whether well-meaning idiots or just plain evil idiots, idiots they are, and will always be.
There is nothing in our founding documents that guarantees success. The Golden Apple surrounded by a Silver Frame provides the opportunity to strive for success but there can be no guarantees. The only guarantee in the Constitution is a Republican Form of Government.
This article points out the Washington Post Agenda more than it points out Elizabeth Bruenig’s ignorance of her countries founding.
What kind of b.s. article is this? Authoress just ignores history, or is ignorant thereof, and just spouts “I think we should try socialism”. Why not Nazism, Stalinism, or Pol Pot ism?
“I would support a kind of socialism that would be democratic...”
It’s an oxymoron. You can’t redistribute wealth if people have liberty and are free to say “no thanks, I’d rather not”. It can only be done with the use of force. Sure, you might wait until you can rig a symbolic vote before you use that force, but the force is coming one way or another.
“what does ‘decommodifying labor’ mean?”
Know-nothing socialist thinks it means: “you get paid regardless of how much you work”
Real socialist application would be: “you work regardless of how much you get paid”
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