02-01-2018, 04:14 AM
(01-31-2018, 08:07 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I think the labels are old and outdated. One's dead and the other is clinging to life. I think capitalist and socialist are more accurate labels to use and to go by in today's America. Look at it/ think of it as being this way, I'm a capitalist who is on the capitalist side and you're a capitalist who is on the socialist side. Does it look, do you think that's pretty accurate? I'm not going to be offended if blues call me a capitalist because that's what I am and what I've always been since I was a little kid. The American reds are all American capitalists. The American blues are a mixture of American capitalists and European minded American socialists. Pretty accurate?
A vast improvement. Still, when one sticks with one word labels, you will fall short.
I don't think the division of wealth should be as large, that division in health care (and some of the other UDHR 25 rights) should be as extreme, and that the elites have enough votes to be immune to the people. I tend to see our military adventures abroad failing and/or having unintended consequences. I put the people ahead of corporations right now, but it is possible to kill the goose that lays the golden egg. We can't be too hard on corporations. I think global warming should have been addressed when there was time, and that there will be a day of reckoning come the next awakening that will shake the past values and bring about some sort of post scarcity values.
All of the above leans me blue, but I am reluctant to speak for all blues. A label is only a start.
That this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.