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The conservative movement keeps insisting than making decent healthcare and education affordable is socialism. That almost never convince anyone that those are
by jmfayard 7y ago
The conservative movement keeps insisting than making decent healthcare and education affordable is socialism.
That almost never convince anyone that those are bad ideas, but it does a lot to make socialism looks good again!
- bluGill 7y agoThat is a straw man socialits try to make. Conservatives do not have a common voice. That socialism doesn't work is but one (there are some complex arguments for why it cannot that you are ignoring - though to be fair they are too complex to put into a short post) Conservatives often point out that we don't have a free market to start with. We have a strictly regulated market (designed by socialists) that cannot help but increase costs because nobody who cares about costs gets a seat at the table. Wanting to get rid of the regulations and allow an actual market is a small point a few conservatives makes.
- jmfayard 7y agoIt's trivially true that no system is purely capitalistic it socialist. The delusion is to not see that going more "socialist" is both hugely popular and supported by the evidence from other countries. Going more capitalist is unpopular and supported by Ayn Rand fictions.