Friday, June 30, 2023

" Liberal " Democrats are not about to smuggle " socialism " into " OUR democracy "

As a longtime independent democratic socialist I am amused how conservative Republicans associate the political agenda of WOKE WARRIOR Democrats with pernicious " socialism ". Does it make sense that corrupt CAPITALIST & FAMILY Joe Biden actually wants to smuggle SOCIALISM into " OUR democracy ". What is really going on here is a bitter conflict WITHIN the American ruling class on the best way to stabilize their capitalist system in crisis. The near STALINIST tactics of illiberal liberal Democrats in recent decades should never be confused with ANY sort of democratic SOCIALIST agenda. For decades now RAT RACE CAPITALISM has compelled the half-ambitious working class and middle class youth to GET THAT DEGREE or risk sinking into the gutter or even lumpen proletariat criminal status. A real democratic socialist government would see that a highly trained , highly skilled, highly " educated " WORKING CLASS is worthy of a huge chunk of the nation's collective wealth. Higher education, in general, should not be the exclusive privilege of the capitalist elite class. A democratic socialist government would organize a more rational DIVISION OF LABOR which the FREE MARKET can never do. ANY working class student who has the intellect and the talent to be a medical doctor or a scientist or even a gifted engineer or mechanic should be offered a completely FREE education. HIGH SCHOOL can be made both free and more practical for the majority of bright-normal students. WORK ( paid work ! ) should be inseparable from study and often boring, useless " homework ". A society where everything is a COMMODITY , for sale on the free market, creates enormous stress and frustration. Psychiatrists have always said that mental health often depends on being HAPPY in your job. But FOR PROFIT enterprise has little to do with the human need for HAPPINESS in life. Question : why can't our wealthy capitalist society at least save homeless people from destitution and misery in the street ? What gets in the way here is sacrosanct landlord-capitalist PRIVATE PROPERTY rights. Do not expect those dubious " socialists " in the Democratic Party to challenge or question that , to think outside the box of their still bourgeois " politics ". But no surprise that the Far Right of the Republican Party sees " creeping socialism " in the Far Left of the Democratic Party. Trump anyway has promised to ban SOCIALISM in every state and city and town in HIS " MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN " country.

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