03-25-2019, 09:07 AM
(03-25-2019, 07:24 AM)Bill the Piper Wrote:(03-24-2019, 10:49 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Social democracy is achievable within the American constitution. It implies a good climate for business including a consumer economy with high taxes that facilitate high incomes and universal opportunity. Such would be a difficult achievement to the extent that mass racism gets in the way -- loser whites being concerned that they would be elevated some, but would reach parity with minorities raised from lower positions. Some people think white privilege worth defending even if such implies their poverty. That reflects the concern "I don't want any mulatto grandchildren" that many white Americans still harbor.
If they don't want mulatto grandchildren they could move to a place like Belarus where there are virtually no non-whites, apart from a few Mongolians or Tatars who came there during Genghis Khan's invasions, and few Turkic citizens of former USSR's republics. Also, Belarus has an autocratic government and no independent central bank. Seems like an identitarian or neoreactionary wet dream.
Iceland is another all-white nation, but it's ruled by SJWs so I don't think American racists think much of it.
Do you think social democracy has been achieved in Europe or Canada?
Iceland would be a poor fit for those ignoramuses. Icelanders read (book consumption per capita is the highest in the world, and one would expect that in a country with long winter nights and a short, chilly summer) something that such people would find unsatisfying. The language, practically the language of the Vikings who settled Iceland, is the most difficult of Germanic languages to learn. The Armed Services have assessed practically all modern languages for difficulty of learning, and while Danish, Norwegian, and Swedish are in the same category as Dutch, Afrikaans, and the Romance languages for being suited for easy learning (German is tricky because Martin Luther successfully imposed a Latin-style declension on nouns and adjectives, so it is not quite in that category), Icelandic is more difficult than German because the language does not fit cultural norms of most Western languages. Belorussian? As with other Slavic languages, it has a tricky grammar.
Those ignoramuses show little sign of competence in learning non-native languages; they often have enough difficulties with English, as one would expect from people with cognitive limitations. They are dim-witted enough to believe that nobody could possibly disagree with them unless stupid or evil. These people are proud to be Americans, and their idea of being American means being much like themselves in behavior and appearance.
Social democracy is a political tendency and not a fixed object of political achievement as is Marxism-Leninism. It requires a well-developed economy capable of creating plenty. It does not repress alternatives, including conservatism. It has an excellent record of human rights, more so than the libertarian pipe dream. It is good at ensuring that practically everyone can have a well-paying job... but it is also a good environment for starting a business because it creates plenty of paying customers.
I look at Donald Trump and I see not only hostility toward economic equality but also some despotic and dictatorial tendencies. He is by far the most authoritarian President that we have ever had, and the most ideologically-firm one ever. FDR's New Deal was pragmatic by necessity, and he had to win the support of Congress. Trump acts as if Congress must obey him because he is the Big Boss. He acts on the assumption "I won, you're done!", with one election deciding everything indefinitely -- which describes Belarus fairly well.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.