Comments by "No Fate But What We Make" (@SonoftheAllfather) on "Crazy Clinton Attacks Bernie Sanders and His Fans in her Failure of a New Book" video.
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Bernie just made promises that couldn't feasibly be delivered without running up massive debt. His policies would be doable in a different country with a different population under a different and unique set of circumstances. That is the only way his form of European socialism works. Democratic socialism in Europe only works when there is a prosperous and diversified market economy and largely homogenous population (ethnic, ideological, wealth), which results in a massive surplus and middle class. That surplus can then be used to prop up the welfare state, but it eventually crumples under its own weight after a finite number of very enjoyable years for their population. This gives them the impression that the system will work indefinitely. Venezuela didn't wait until their economy was diversified and enough of a surplus existed, and their population was too large and not homogenous enough (too much wealth disparity), so their system failed. Mass unfettered immigration and decadence (lack of competition and laziness) eventually destroys this system as well, and the U.S. is experiencing both of those. We will see this occur in Europe soon, as their surpluses diminish, and their dependent class begins to overwhelm their productive class, the government will be forced to raise taxes higher and higher until they are forced to nationalize industry and become socialist dictatorships. The European form of socialism would never work in the United States. The population is too large and ethnically/ideologically/financially diverse. It is a dream. I would still begrudgingly accept Bernie over Clinton, but his ideology is not sound. Please stop acting as though it is feasible for this country.
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@ Browns Fan: Not really. I am for liberty, decentralized government, law and order, family values, tradition, and protection, among other things. I can stomach a liberal, but not a Leftist, because they are not the same thing. What you have these days is a bunch of Neo-Marxists masquerading as "Progressives," globalist champagne socialists masquerading as liberals, and neocons masquerading as moderate Democrats. Classical liberalism is now conservative libertarianism, that has elements of which I agree.
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