The Far Right is pulling no punches to instill fear in the voters because the DSA has made great progress in the elections….they even go as far as saying that people are voting for a Soviet style candidate.

To that I say….total bullshit!

But if they, those that are fearing the “socialist wave”, if you will, there is a simple, maybe not as simple as I make out, to calm the fear….

Everywhere I look, I see people expressing alarm about the popularity of socialism. It polls in the mid-to-high 30s, and considerably higher among younger people. Older people, who have a living memory of the various socialist regimes that once dotted the planet, which at best didn’t deliver prosperity to their people and at worst threw them in jail by the thousands, can’t understand how this could be and seem to want to talk endlessly about it.

I, however, marvel at the other consistent result of all these polls, which these people don’t seem nearly as interested in talking about. I refer to the ratings Americans give to capitalism. They’re terrible. A big Gallup poll from last fall is representative. Socialism won the approval of 39 percent, while capitalism’s positive number was 54 percent.

That is pathetic—barely half the country! In the country that invented modern capitalism and where it is worshipped by the elite class! And you know what? It’s entirely deserved. In fact, it deserves to be a little worse (as it is among Democrats). The kind of capitalism we’ve been practicing in this country over the last 40-plus years is cruel, corrupt, and a perversion of what humane capitalism ought to be. The people who are so freaked out about socialism ought to realize that the only way they’re going to arrest its rise is to change capitalism for the better.

From the founding of the country until the stock market crash of 1929, the general belief was that government should be small and markets should not be regulated. Some people say it worked pretty well until 1929, but in fact, that isn’t true. It worked well enough to perpetuate itself, because if capitalism is anything it’s elastic and dynamic, but that’s about it.

https://newrepublic.com/article/214122/fear-socialism-try-fix-capitalism

This is saying that capitalism should be fixed and maybe progressives would not be gaining popularity.

I think that is an excellent idea but let’s be honest….the oligarchs have a stranglehold on the economy and the government and fixing the problem will entail some harsh policies….policies that I do not think many will support.

The reality is if profitability drops all reform must disappear.  That as it is today is the sad reality.  Then the question needs asking….can capitalism be reformed?

My opinion is no it cannot be reformed successfully….if that is the case then we need to replace it.

How about my readers any ideas?

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