posted by like_that
Socialism is a fantastic deal for those on top of the pecking order.
This simple truism is completely lost of the Left, but that's what happens when you train people to react based on emotions rather than logic and pragmatism.
I have a hard time believing that corruption and "dark money lobbying" is going to do anything but become much worse when you have the govt taking over huge chunks of the economy. Healthcare is on it's way to 20%, Energy (if the climate alarmists get their way) is like another 10%....throw in "too big to fail" financial industry and you get pretty close to 50% of the economy controlled extensively by the govt. But But But that's not socialism, I'm told, so long as the govt doesn't actually sit in the Board room telling the CEO what to do.
Some of the popular "socialist" economies liberals love to cherry-pick actually rank higher than the US on economic freedom. Someone should do their homework, and when Bernie Sanders strats pontificating on Switzerland or Denmark, respond with a laundry list of economic policies those countries have in direct opposition to what Bernie wants to do.
The challenge is how do you communicate that in 60 seconds in a debate? Political discourse in this country is, by design, completely superficial. The idea there's any sort of public intellectual debate on any of this stuff is laughable. Like there was never a real debate on climate change, and anyone who attempts to start one is immediately dismissed as anti-science.
