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Did you realize that FDR was a socialist right? All of the popular policies that he instituted were socialist policies.
Yeah, and his Socialist policies were the only thing that made post-war America livable.
Now that we've had decades to compare Socialist policies with Sociopathic Capitalist policies, Ill take the Socialists.
So?
If it works it's good, if it doesn't it's bad.
Neither capitalism or socialism is inherently good or bad. They are just systems. Stop treating them like they are religions.
People and their actions make them good or bad systems.
Any effective government is going to be a combination of the best element of multiple systems. Every system has good and bad ideas. Keep the good ideas, ditch the bad ones, and tweak it until it works. But it's dumb to keep the bad ideas, just so you can have the good ones. We can do anything we want.
Name a bad socialist idea. Keep in mind that socialism and communism are not the same or interchangeable in any way.
Exactly, a hybrid systems will always be the most resilient and effective.
And yet it's funny how all the people who see capitalism as the perfect system are always the ones trying to dismantle the socialist systems that were put in place. Those same socialist systems that everybody relies upon for our society to run in a non-dystopian fashion.