That might work if the UK made, you know, stuff… rather than financial shenanigan cupcakes which is the only Brexit plan for growth.
That’s a touch unfair, selling arms to despots is also part of the “plan”…
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I think it’s more about the usual US nationalism and national narrative/identity of “We’re the best of the world! USA! USA!”. A large portion of US Americans believe their country is the best of the world and their political system is the pinnacle of a long evolution of lesser flawed systems.
So other countries citizens can’t have it better than the USA. They’re simply deluded or tricked - there has to be a flaw, something bad … and what’s worse than socialism/communism eh?
Btw this attitude is what prevents meaningful chance in the USA. Why change something if you’re living in the best system (healthcare, constitution, economy) mankind has ever created?
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If you have to make up falsehoods to support your point, then your point is not very strong.
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The center-left is doing a terrible job communicating what they mean by ‘socialism’ and it is really letting the right-wing nuts control the narrative. These assholes fucking love to talk about Venezuela, despite knowing that the ‘socialism’ actually proposed by people like Warren and Sanders is so much more akin to European-style welfare-state capitalism (something Venezuelans would consider very right-wing). Somehow Nancy Peloci is branded as a fire-breathing leftist, despite so fervently declaring the party’s dedication to capitalism.
It’s partially the fault of the third-way Dem’s from the 90’s tacking to the center and essentially becoming fiscal conservatives. They sold out labor, welfare, and protected markets and now right-wing populists are taking it up (at least the market protections)… These moves are likely going to coincide with another downturn and I fear that as a result, we will actually be moving even further away from European-style socialism, rather than towards it.
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“Sounds absolutely delicious!”
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No, its not understandable at all. No reasonable person would ever call WW2 Japan “communist.” The US was also “communist” during WW2; that is, it was on a war economy.
Although, perhaps, you meant its “understandable” because Fox, again, was spouting nonsense.
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I have had similar conversations with people when they talk about Canadian single payer health care being a hellish nightmarescape of inadequate care and dying oldsters. It isn’t, but facts are not the core of the discussion at all.
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No perfect economic model exists. Its obvious some are better than others, but it depends on many factors—in my opinion the main factor is population… Its simple… the smaller the population, the easier it is to satisfy…The problem is this… humans are instinctively competitive and lazy…get my point.
Your last sentence is the answer. Why would i as an American think anything differently. Like me, you have been bread to believe what you believe. I guess it comes down to whether YOU would be happy in my system and vice versa.
Please define labor, welfare, and protected markets.
Welcome to boing boing, new comrade.
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He meant to say circuses.
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Some fishes, to go with the loaves.
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Some people can be such a pain 
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Here, read a book
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that’s your answer to my question?
