Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "What Happens to Landlords When Tenants Can't Pay Rent? | WSJ" video.

  1. I think we've seen this scene before -- the socialists struggling to save capitalism and the capitalists running around in circles and whining a lot. That's the big story of 1929~32, and we've seen it again a couple of times a generation.
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  2.  @TempestSageX  You're right: that isn't what they say they're doing. The fact, however, is that the Socialists saved American capitalism with the New Deal in 1932~37, and socialist policies are what is going to save it now.
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  3.  @ericvega5756  Crony capitalism is socialism. Day is night. Black is white. You're twisting twisting in the wind, Eric.
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  4.  @ericvega5756  Eric, You've got it backwards. Socialism is when the government runs the assets. In your example, the assets are running the government. You're on the right track, just 180 degrees in the wrong direction.
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  5.  @ericvega5756  Here's a video of your bailout. They're all drinking champagne, or at least something white and alcoholic. Not a Bernie Bro in the bunch.
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  6.  @ericvega5756  Ah, the pure anarchist position. As an old drinking buddy of Karl Hess, back when he lived on his houseboat on the Naval Reservation in post-Goldwater days, I recognize it well. The problem with that theory is, it leaves us all at the mercy of the big guy with the club. We voted against that, first with Magna Charta, which brought the big guy under the control of a lot of middle guys, and with Common Law, which said even the middle guys have to be subject to law. In the United States that has gone as far as experimentation with republican democracy, and that is holding up pretty well under attack, still in operation after 231 years, after its false start from 1776 to 1789. Sorry, Eric, you're about sight hundred years out of fashion for our civilization. If you want to get up to speed, you can maybe start by confessing what you admit tacitly above, that you lied in conflating socialism with crony capitalism, and that lying is not a good start in contributing to our shared polis.
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