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"Rich people / oligarchs need to have more of a social conscience
Ding, ding, ding, DING!
With the whole Epstein fiasco how do these people think government is a vehicle they wanna get into?
This is where I blame everyone. The masses are a product of their parents, public education, and media / entertainment. Everyone likes to blame but few want to own what we have and focus on what they are doing about it or the mistakes they've made.
I almost never let someone advocate for socialism without asking a lot of questions and this story rings very true to me. The number of people that understand what socialism actually is is much lower than the massively low number of people that understand capitalism.
I'm a broken record on this. We (the American people) never actually rejected the ideas of Marx. Just implementations. Even the right wing are socialist-lite and have been going back to WW2.
With the whole Epstein fiasco how do these people think government is a vehicle they wanna get into?
This has always been my frustration with the good progressives, like Greenwald or Dore. How do they see and understand the corruption so similarly to us but still want the government in charge of vast swaths of society?
Its a massive blind spot.
To be clear. I'm not so naive to think that simply getting rid of the state or shrinking it makes all our problems go away. It won't. But centralizing so much power in one place is like a magnet for evil. Evil is with us. We just need to stop lying to ourselves that because people vote for it that makes it legitimate.
The problem of evil is not solved by removing the state. But is sure does break it down to size. And, I know we are no where near being ready as a species for freedom/responsibility. Its gonna take a LOT more time.
My guess is the functional meaning of socialism in most young peoples' heads is:
"Rich people / oligarchs need to have more of a social conscience"
and that they somehow think government policy can achieve this. (In general, there is just way too much misplaced belief in the government's ability to make things better, see my comment here: #1445554)
Given the whole Epstein fiasco, I can forgive someone for thinking that the wealthy need to grow a conscience. I wish they didn't think that somehow you can regulate that in.