IF ONLY Oregon were actually "Communist"... You'd have free healthcare, and education, and there'd be no people living under bridges, or in tents on the outskirts of town.
What we have in the USA is a battle between the Far-Right, and the Center-Right, in our mainstream political discourse and Overton window. The right calls the Democrats "Communists", while left and Democrats call the right and the GOP "Nazis". Well...the right hasn't studied enough poli sci to make an accurate assessment, generally... And the left and Democrats are engaged in hyperbole, that distracts from the fascistic and authoritarian tendencies that have been fostered deliberately, over 30-40 years of rightward drift.
Corporate Socialism aka Corporatism aka Mussolini-style fascism are what you have.
"Communism" is used as a synonym for Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism on the right...but that needn't be what that looks like. Marx and Engels didn't advocate for it.
Yeah both sides are really Nazis, but IтАЩd say the Dems are more effective at it... well actually IтАЩd say the neocon Republicans are worse but theyтАЩre unelectable; whatтАЩs electable are Q people some of whom are would-be petty dictators but they donтАЩt know what theyтАЩre doing and donтАЩt have substantial policy proposals. America is such a politically backwards country that it would be all too fitting if fascism came from the тАЬleftтАЭ. And it probably would but for the fact that these Nazis are gassing themselves which is also fittingly backwards.
Free - like it was something that we were giving to Weapons Makers, Big Corporations, Billionaires, the Pentagon, CIA, or Police... Free - because since you (and all of your productive labor) are ALREADY collateral on the Federal debt, since the 1933 bankruptcy and reorganization, it makes more economic sense to keep you healthy and housed, rather than incapacitated, and/or infectious, and living under a bridge, with no job... Trust me. The costs of an unhealthy, UnHoused, uneducated population, are higher than a society which doesn't have all of those problems. That's why, as impoverished as we've worked so hard, and spent trillions on trying to make them...the Cubans still find the ways to do those things, for THEIR people.
I'm certain all the people living under bridges would magically all have jobs and productive lives if only...what exactly? There are a million jobs available right now but no one is taking them, certainly not the under-the-bridge dwellers.
And ask yourself again, why do Cuban Americans vote overwhelmingly Republican?
Because they're The kind of empathy bereft quislings that were overthrown by the Cuban Revolution. They're properly known as "Gusanos" amongst the actual Cuban people, and those who stand with them.
As for the people living under the bridges, nobody will hire you, without an address, and a way to show up to work, clean and in washed clothes. What rationalizations do you use to help explain the sudden rise in the UnHoused population, caused by the degenerative disease of late capitalism? Have mental illness and addiction just suddenly boomed, inexplicably?
Certainly the CIA controlled drug trade has SOMETHING to do with it... But the reality is one dominated by economic factors, and profit-driven speculation. For EVERY UnHoused man, woman, child or family unit - there are at least two empty dwellings available, usually not too far away.
Most of the Cubans that came here were oligarchs before Castro took over and theyтАЩre still bitter about losing their banana republic plantation wealth.
Oh shi! I am in Communist Oregon.
IF ONLY Oregon were actually "Communist"... You'd have free healthcare, and education, and there'd be no people living under bridges, or in tents on the outskirts of town.
What we have in the USA is a battle between the Far-Right, and the Center-Right, in our mainstream political discourse and Overton window. The right calls the Democrats "Communists", while left and Democrats call the right and the GOP "Nazis". Well...the right hasn't studied enough poli sci to make an accurate assessment, generally... And the left and Democrats are engaged in hyperbole, that distracts from the fascistic and authoritarian tendencies that have been fostered deliberately, over 30-40 years of rightward drift.
Corporate Socialism aka Corporatism aka Mussolini-style fascism are what you have.
"Communism" is used as a synonym for Authoritarianism and Totalitarianism on the right...but that needn't be what that looks like. Marx and Engels didn't advocate for it.
Yeah both sides are really Nazis, but IтАЩd say the Dems are more effective at it... well actually IтАЩd say the neocon Republicans are worse but theyтАЩre unelectable; whatтАЩs electable are Q people some of whom are would-be petty dictators but they donтАЩt know what theyтАЩre doing and donтАЩt have substantial policy proposals. America is such a politically backwards country that it would be all too fitting if fascism came from the тАЬleftтАЭ. And it probably would but for the fact that these Nazis are gassing themselves which is also fittingly backwards.
Free? Like it is paid by fairies from outer space? Please.
We have the technology to make loads of stuff for super cheap if it werenтАЩt being hoarded by oligarchs for artificial scarcity.
Free - like it was something that we were giving to Weapons Makers, Big Corporations, Billionaires, the Pentagon, CIA, or Police... Free - because since you (and all of your productive labor) are ALREADY collateral on the Federal debt, since the 1933 bankruptcy and reorganization, it makes more economic sense to keep you healthy and housed, rather than incapacitated, and/or infectious, and living under a bridge, with no job... Trust me. The costs of an unhealthy, UnHoused, uneducated population, are higher than a society which doesn't have all of those problems. That's why, as impoverished as we've worked so hard, and spent trillions on trying to make them...the Cubans still find the ways to do those things, for THEIR people.
I'm certain all the people living under bridges would magically all have jobs and productive lives if only...what exactly? There are a million jobs available right now but no one is taking them, certainly not the under-the-bridge dwellers.
And ask yourself again, why do Cuban Americans vote overwhelmingly Republican?
Because they're The kind of empathy bereft quislings that were overthrown by the Cuban Revolution. They're properly known as "Gusanos" amongst the actual Cuban people, and those who stand with them.
As for the people living under the bridges, nobody will hire you, without an address, and a way to show up to work, clean and in washed clothes. What rationalizations do you use to help explain the sudden rise in the UnHoused population, caused by the degenerative disease of late capitalism? Have mental illness and addiction just suddenly boomed, inexplicably?
Certainly the CIA controlled drug trade has SOMETHING to do with it... But the reality is one dominated by economic factors, and profit-driven speculation. For EVERY UnHoused man, woman, child or family unit - there are at least two empty dwellings available, usually not too far away.
Most of the Cubans that came here were oligarchs before Castro took over and theyтАЩre still bitter about losing their banana republic plantation wealth.
Bingo! And the greedy and self-centered are actively encouraged to follow, and then join-up with the contras in Miami.