Comments by "No Fate But What We Make" (@SonoftheAllfather) on "Too Cool to be a Liberal: Neolibs are Boring and Dying Out" video.

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  15. The United States prior to the New Deal is what pure unbridled capitalism and imperialism looked like. It is not the politics or the economics of the United States that has "pulled so far right," it has simply gradually shifted. The most drastic shift has taken place in the rest of the "advanced industrial" world, which has pulled towards the Left and becoming social welfare states. Look to Western Europe as the example of that, where they have socialists in control of most of the government and a corrupt post-national authority lording over them, stripping them of their national sovereignty. Even communists openly run, and with a marginal degree of popularity there. You clearly don't have the self determinant spirit requisite to conceptualize a state without a strong centralized welfare system actually working. Instead you advocate for systems that are destined to fail. The government cannot spend money unless it first takes it away from someone else. The problem is that there is a finite amount of wealth, even in the "capitalist class." Once there is no money left to take, these systems implode under the weight of the parasitic leaches that they are sustaining. Add mass unfettered immigration and open border retardation, and you have yourself a failed state, unable to sustain its utopian dream. Still, the U.S. is moving that direction, and the massive bureaucratically controlled central government and the growing welfare state here is already clearly unsustainable, especially when mass immigration is factored into the equation.
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  19. "somehow think that your theory is flawless" Hardly. I simply think it is exponentially better than communism and other forms of socialistic welfare systems. "automatically pivot to boxing the left into Marxist theory whenever there's an argument against a laissez faire marketplace. There's no either/or here." Actually, I'm not for unbridled, completely deregulated capitalism either. I think it's safe to say most American Rightists aren't either. I simply advocate for a reversal of the welfare state. Most American Leftists are pushing for "democratic socialism," which is essentially just socialism lite and is fundamentally Marxist in principle. I'm just calling a duck a duck, honestly. Also, as you well know, Marxist theory transcends economics and politics. There is cultural Marxism as well, which is culpable for many of the perverse postmodernist forms of degeneracy that are infecting our society today. I agree with your assessment on cronyism, mismanagement and misallocation of taxpayer dollars, politics and spending being influenced by corporate interests, etc. Riddle me this, however...given how incredibly inept and corrupt big centralized government has proven itself to be, why should we feel compelled to place more power and tax dollars into their hands? It seems as though some Leftists contradict their criticism of the government as inept by advocating for more government control, more taxes, and more bureaucratically run programs.   Overall, that was a very well structured argument. Props.
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  21. "It's very difficult for social democracy to function when the USA empire is pulling, by hook or by crook, further to the right - "free market" capitalism." What a pathetic excuse. Blame the U.S. for all of your economic woes. You're just proving that we indirectly subsidize your shitty social projects. We should pull out of NAFTA and twist the knife. "What you have is private profits and socialized costs FOR THE RICH" The rich (the top 1%) pay between 35-39.6% for income tax here. The highest corporate tax bracket is 35%. The rich pay more taxes here that they do in Canada, income and corporate. "Would you prefer that your tax dollars are spent on a massively bloated military (that receives socialized medical, btw) No actually I would much rather the rest of the West pay their fair share in defense spending to protect interests that are largely their's as well i.e. fund their fair share of NATO or get the fuck out of it, help pay for Israel to not get wiped off the face of the Earth etc. I would much rather our war apparatus be partially defunded and that money reallocated to homeland security, schools, infrastructure etc. But no other Western "industrialized nations" wants to bear the burden of protecting our way of life and paying for the means to have an effective war apparatus. They would much rather just push their weight around as if they deserve to be heard as a world voice, all whilst under the dry umbrella of American protection, and then sanctimoniously sneer and badmouth us as "imperialists" ever chance they get. Meanwhile all of these "visionary" Western countries are trying to sustain these degenerating social welfare states in hopes of establishing some kind of utopia, whilst simultaneously inviting the Third World into their countries. Only a fool would establish a welfare state with open borders, so perhaps you all deserve to be destroyed. It's like a being a parent: they treat you like shit, you sustain them, and you watch as they make childish errors trying "follow their hearts." "would you prefer your tax dollars went to universal healthcare" Absolutely fucking not. There will never be universal healthcare in this country, and I'll tell you why. Firstly, we have 350 million people in this country and that number will be increasing so long as we're allowing illegal immigrants that have an average birthrate of 3 children per woman to enter our country without significant legal consequence. Our largest example of socialized medicine is the Veterans Health Administration which serves about 1.5 million people and costs the Fed about 2% of its mandatory budget per year. If you take the cost of the VHA, and you apply it to the entire population, it would cost the equivalency of 466% of the U.S. federal mandatory spending budget just to provide healthcare that is renown in the U.S. as being horrible (believe me, I'm a vet). The cost of socialized medicine in this country in unsustainable. It would require taxes to increase exponentially. Remember that the population of Canada is only 1/10 of ours, and we have way more poor immigrants that contribute very little tax revenue. Some groups of people in this country are a lot more productive than others, and I'm not talking about people who are unable to produce. The productive class does not want to subsidize the parasitic class any more than they already do in this country. There is already socialized medicine here for the poor, the elderly, the disabled, and veterans. Those that are able to be productive should not be rewarded for their lack of productivity. The majority of career-type jobs have healthcare benefits. Welfare states breed laziness and a false sense of entitlement, and Americans know this. Healthcare is not a right owed to anyone by society, it is a courtesy given to those that are the neediest and unable to produce and sustain the cost of their own healthcare.
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