I think it is all part of the idea that we can alter society forcing it to do as we desire. Politics is based upon this. Socialism is all about robbing one class to benefit the other. There is no comprehension that everything is connected and this permeates analysis as well. This is not my personal discovery for many have seen these connections in Eastern Philosophies. I think in economics, politicians are not interested in such realizations for it means they are not the masters of the universe.You take Obama’s policy against Russia. He has effectively been disrupting everything around Europe and the consequences are pouring in refugees to Europe and his sanctions have hurt European farmers and the economy. It is not deliberate, but it is reckless for there is no recognition of how everything is connected.
Every action has a consequence. We have the Fed lowered rates to help the banks. But that crisis is over and the consequence has been to create the next crisis – the defaults of pensions and insurance companies that required high interest rates. So many regulations required pension funds to own government bonds. The regulations have set the stage for the next crisis.
We cannot escape this connectivity. Whatever action we take has a consequence. It is impossible to manipulate markets and the economy for there will always be unintended collateral damage. We are living in the era that will bring about a collapse of socialism precisely as took place in communism. Government is incapable of ever managing society for they cannot escape the inter-connectivity.
This is just a question so don’t you ultra right-wingers blow a gasket, give it some thought with the few brain cells you have left…..
If socialism is so bad, why are the happiest people on the planet living in socialist countries? Your thoughts?
You mean those happy Swedes getting hacked to death at IKEA by Muslims?
That was me, I had a moment of premature submit commentitis.
Anonymous, uh, what the fuck are you talking about? Which “socialist” countries? Where? You have your head up your ass. I lived in Cuba for two years. Very socialist. Very, very unhappy. Go peddle your Marxist nonsense somewhere else. Socialism is a system for lazy, good-for-nothing losers and the handful of power mad thugs at the top. There were groups of happy people in Cuba. The Reds at the top, who lived like kings, and the worthless scum at the bottom, who were perfectly content to live like pigs, eat swill and drink cheap rumprovided by the government just as long as they did not have to work. Socialism is the perfect system for the mediocre, those afraid of responsibility, the shiftless, the stupid. That is to say, Democrats and such like.
Sweden has less than 10 million people; a nation smaller than the metropolitan area of Los Angeles. Until the Swedes opened the floodgates to refugees from the Middle East, they were generally homogenous, sharing a similar culture and values, while living in the same vicinity of each other (southern 1/3 of the country). Think of them as a tall blonde village with a correlating outlook on life spanning hundreds upon hundreds of years. While I disagree in principle with socialism, those factors lend themselves to creating an environment where socialism might be more accepted. However, when the wrong person or group of people assumes the reigns of power, which is only a matter of time given the history of humanity, expect a genocide every so often.
While the Swedes generally see themselves as one people, I believe socialism is the worst form of government for a place like the Divided States of America. We’re ethnically diverse, linguistically heterogeneous, vary geographically (spread across an entire continent), have differing religions and levels of belief therein, have assorted degrees of education, multiple political leanings… the list is endless. We can’t even agree on basic building blocks of society like what constitutes marriage and lately have difficulty as a society determining what is a man and a woman. Socialism makes things worse in this environment because we’re not all in this together, nor do many of us want to be. Socialism creates a cursed union of malcontents. Regardless of societal composition, the best environment for growth, innovation, and liberty is allowing people to chart their own course with limited intervention from a body of men, who may be well-intentioned, but paving the road to hell with those intentions nevertheless. I see the predetermined course of a life lived under socialism as an injustice to the interests of the people it claims to serve.
John Angelo applies a swift kick to Westcoaster’s socialist loving groin. That’s gotta hurt.
If socialism is so good, how come it always be enforced at the point of a gun?
Poor ignoranti don’t imagine when they accept free phones, they are accepting a leash and a tracking device. Eventually, they will be issued to 98% of the population and those refusing to carry a cell phone will be suspect. In fact, they will make it mandatory just like insurance and organ donation. Once the big wigs get everybody on the programmed life, free will itself will be a thing of the past. Down the memory hole with free will. That is the end game for socialism, government control of the individual.
Yes, Ukranian farmers murdered by Stalin and victims of the Khmer Rouge are the happiest people in the world.