onlooker wrote:Capitalism has done such an excellent job of destroying any country with dreams of equality under a socialist or communist banner, that not one country, not even the U.S.S.R. has ever existed that was actually truly communist. If any country threatens to bring equal rights to its citizens, its smashed by the U.S. which also has done an excellent job of brainwashing its workers into actually believing that being wage slaves to psychopaths is the only way to go. We eschew equality, we eschew decent health care based on healing rather than on profiteering, we eschew a decent and free educational system which is extant in every industrialized nation on the planet with the exception of the U.S. - which, to be fair, is no longer an industrialized nation, but a banana republic. But the serfs will defend their thieving, exploitative masters no matter how bad things get, no matter how bad and expensive and unavailable housing gets so the Jared Kushner's of the world can continue to leech off the work of others through privatized property, no matter how bad the educational or job opportunities. Amerikan workers will continue like zombies sleepwalking through life, accepting their masters' version of reality instead of the hell we're forced to live so the insanely bloated rich and powerful can become even more insane, more bloated, more powerful and even richer. One of these days, they'll cut down the last tree, murder the last animal for sport, destroy the last "enemy". Then we'll be the only enemy left for them to kill and I already know, as they do, that as many stupid and vicious people exist, they can always find enough hired hitmen among the working class to kill the other half. Then their collaborators will be the last to go and we'll have made of earth a Psychopath's Paradise and change the name of Earth to Earth, Inc.
This is pure, unadulterated BS. Communism has never worked, even though it has been attempted in slightly different flavors almost four dozen times. The five present communist regimes are either failing - like N Korea and Venezuela - or transforming slowly into Capitalist economies - like China and Cuba. We HAVE covered this ground before, and I think everybody understands this except our Commie members onlooker and Dohboi.
As for "How Capitalism Turned America Soviet", I got about halfway through that nonsense before I couldn't take it anymore. For those of you with memories destroyed by drug and alcohol abuse, I would remind you of the recent history of healthcare in the USA: basicly functional but needing tweeking before Obamacare pretty much rewrote the rules in favor of the insurance companies. Obamacare, if one will recall, was the US Congress and a Left Wingnut POTUS's lame attempt at Socialized Healthcare.
It's gonna be OK in spite of your angst. Capitalism always breaks out in the end and saves those still alive after the latest Socialist/Communist nightmare.