Comments by "Andrina Websdale" (@andrina118) on "Academy of Ideas"
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@Sam21998 I am not in the US. From a European perspective you have 2 parties. One which has been hijacked by the far right. The other represents big business and is politically neo-liberal.
Do you really see the GOP being rounded up, put in camps and exterminated. To say they're suffering like the Jews in Nazi Germany is an insult to the 6 million murdered by white supremacists during the 30s and 40s. It was not just the Jews, it was gays gypsies, disabled people, trans people, slavs and anyone the Nazis didn't like.
The USSR wasn't fascist, but Stalinist, an authoritarian corruption of the failed attempt to create a communist state.
The likes of Bernie Sanders and friends are Social democrats, perhaps best described as centre left, unfortunately obsessed with identity politics
The large corporations that run the USA represented by the Dems are just globalist capitalists with a bit of progressive window dressing to satisfy young people's attitudes to sexuality and cultural values, but essentially the same old hegemony of capitalism.
Do really think Amazon and the Google of today, Elon Musk and his ilk are on the left? Of course they aren't. They're just on the liberal side of the culture wars because that's where the money is.
Basically the ever larger working class of the USA and to a large extent Europe are getting shafted, while they squabble over a load of imaginary internet nonsense.
The important things that comprise democratic socialism are - for all people -
1)Healthcare free to all at the point of use.
2)Employment - receiving a living wage with reasonable working conditions
3) Education - basic education up to degree level without having to go into crippling debt
4) Housing - everyone entitled to basic housing at reasonable cost, no large homeless population on the streets
5) Welfare or a Universal basic Income. a guarantee that no-one is destitute and starving, and able to survive if they cannot work.
Of course there will always be some sort of private sector but it must not monopolise the means of production to the detriment of ordinary people's lives.
Fuck the rest of the shit.
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