It does seem to make a lot of people short circuit. Though I don't know that's a US specific problem, as there are only like 3 areas on Earth where the majority of the local population is amicable to the ideas of libertarian socialism.
Why don't your " Scandinavian" countries have this problem .
Greta post! a nice combo of ignorance and fear mongering.
Oh no....
yup
Yet it is the right that are the Putin lovers and want a "President for life" like Russia has. They are the ones to fear. The ones working with Putin to undermine this country and democracy.
he speaks "Fox".
Trump is a fascist, praises dictators, and wants to be a dictator who rejects elections and creates a family dynasty but his supporters oppose authoritarian policies.
Sadly so do millions of otherwise normal Americans,
What does white skin have to do with anything? Your racism is showing.
So why don't Scandinavian countries have our capitalist problems ?
You're living in the past, man. The best way to gain or maintain perpetual totalitarianism is to control people's minds, the next best is to control their options, and only as a last resort to control their actions. Propaganda, psychological manipulation and computerized - even personalized - information manipulation these days has the potential to be vastly more advanced than even the Nazis or Soviets could accomplish. That then raises an interesting (if scary) question: If a few decades from now a state were able to arrange matters such that their citizens actually wanted to live under autocratic, oligarchic or plutocratic rule - happy to submit to whatever mandates the authorities deemed fit without the perceived risks and failures of democracy - would their freedoms actually be curtailed in any meaningful sense?
Their governments have been given sufficient power to regulate the worst capitalist abuses and protect workers/consumers. Obviously.
My guess is that all governments seek as much control and authority as they can get and use propaganda to discredit anything other than that system put in place. The US is just a perfect example. The system in the US, AKA the swamp, really doesn't care who is in charge as long as they are system democrats or system republicans. Everything else is to be discredited and demonized before any logical reflection can take place. Most, if not all the world's governments function this way. Anyway, the ideas of LibSoc are really interesting, but I can't see how they could be implemented by most populations today. It would require a much more sophisticated citizen, as well as modified economic and monetary systems, and all those are extremely difficult to change.
Simple. They do. The problem is that you don't understand Socialism.
Why on earth would you hire representatives and then run away from them like you don't know how they got there?
Racism has nothing to do with the inherently predatory problems of capitalism. White conservatives also seek to deny equal rights and opportunities to women, people of other religions, immigrants, and LGBT people too. This is a social problem of which race is just one aspect.
So why don't white conservative Scandinavians deny equal rights to these other groups as well ?
America was DESIGNED for Freedom and Liberty ! Not Socialism or "DEMOCRACY" !
Lisa.
The 1964 Civil Rights act prevents favoritism based on race, creed, color gender/sex, age, and disability. You should learn it. The Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amdnement does the very same. The idea that they are rights shared equally by all not and privileges enjoyed by the majority or just some of the people also seems to be lost on you.
Do you understand the bolded sentence? What part of "total governmentment power & total Authoritarian Control" do you not grasp? Total control and power doesn't ring any alarms?