Comments by "Mat Broomfield" (@matbroomfield) on "Chile’s Proposed Left-Wing Constitution Could Spell Chaos" video.

  1. That's as honest as asking if you would prefer to live in Støre's Norway or Hitler's Germany. The two ultimate extremes do not represent the majority. Dozens of countries in the world thrive under mild socialism/equitable capitalism.
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  2. America is literally dying under an extreme right wing capitalist system, with tens of thousands a year dying as a direct result, and you're STILL looking at left wing nations and scaremongering? I don't know about Chile, but what you would call socialism is providing for citizens all over Europe, and the only reason it's failing big in China, was the introduction of capitalism.
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  3.  @zippymufo9765  Nor did I say it was.
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  4.  @DefinitelyNotAMachineCultist  "The point is that one direction, even at the extremes, is less bad than the other." It depends which direction you are referring to. To me, many of the very greatest evils in American society, most especially political corruption, disregard for the environment and dissembling about it, heartless disregard for human life and social division can all be laid squarely at the feet of capitalism. Socialism - evn at its most extreme, never threatened to wipe out the planet. "Both Castro's Cuba, and Pinochet's Chile can meaningfully be called dictatorships." so what? They are not exemplars of socialism - they are exemplars of dictatorships, with some socialistic ideology. "You do realize that a big part of his entire scheme was putting private property under de facto control of the state, right?" Again, so what? How is that either socialism OR capitalism? But even if you interpret this as a malformed example of socialism, it makes as much sense as complaining that humans are ugly because the elephant man exists. You don't only judge a system by its worst failures. EVERYWHERE that capitalism is given unrestrict reign and influence over politics, life for the masses eventually gets worse with falling wages, corrupted politics, greed, power accumulated in the hands of the few, and a turn towards low key fascism. Yes, capitalism has lead to great advances in society in the form of technology, science, agriculture, and far more, but only when constraints are placed upon it. Why then, is it not reasonable to view socialism through the same lense of reasonable constraints?
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