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originally posted by: FamCore
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
Those who support socialism in the US incorrectly blame "capitalism" for society's problems when it is actually central banks and corporatism/fascism to blame for the wealth disparity & resulting bigger injustices we witness on a daily basis.
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
Do not mistake woke politics with socialism.
There is very, very little promoted by The Democratic Party that even remotely resembles Socialist ideology.
If you think there is I'd sure like you to provide real examples here, I'd love to have a look.
'Half way' to 'Full Socialist'?
How do you work that out?
Again, specific examples would be great.
Soft despotism is a term coined by Alexis de Tocqueville describing the state into which a country overrun by "a network of small complicated rules" might degrade. Soft despotism is different from despotism (also called 'hard despotism') in the sense that it is not obvious to the people.
Soft despotism gives people the illusion that they are in control, when in fact they have very little influence over their government. Soft despotism breeds fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the general populace. Alexis de Tocqueville observed that this trend was avoided in America only by the "habits of the heart" of its 19th-century populace.
After having thus taken each individual one by one into its powerful hands, and having molded him as it pleases, the sovereign power extends its arms over the entire society; it covers the surface of society with a network of small, complicated, minute, and uniform rules, which the most original minds and the most vigorous souls cannot break through to go beyond the crowd; it does not break wills, but it softens them, bends them and directs them; it rarely forces action, but it constantly opposes your acting; it does not destroy, it prevents birth; it does not tyrannize, it hinders, it represses, it enervates, it extinguishes, it stupifies, and finally it reduces each nation to being nothing more than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.
I have always believed that this sort of servitude, regulated, mild and peaceful, of which I have just done the portrait, could be combined better than we imagine with some of the external forms of liberty, and that it would not be impossible for it to be established in the very shadow of the sovereignty of the people.
originally posted by: underwerks
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
Just popping in to say that the idea of a Socialist boogeyman that you guys have absorbed as truth is a tired old tactic that has been used for almost a century into scaring voters into voting for right wing policies.
originally posted by: Freeborn
a reply to: asabuvsobelow
Do not mistake woke politics with socialism.
There is very, very little promoted by The Democratic Party that even remotely resembles Socialist ideology.
If you think there is I'd sure like you to provide real examples here, I'd love to have a look.
'Half way' to 'Full Socialist'?
How do you work that out?
Again, specific examples would be great.