RE: Atheists: What if Trump addressed your issues in America. Would you vote for him?
March 30, 2020 at 9:18 am
(This post was last modified: March 30, 2020 at 9:23 am by Anomalocaris.)
(March 30, 2020 at 9:09 am)Nomad Wrote:(March 29, 2020 at 1:12 pm)Anomalocaris Wrote: We need left wing voters who recognize capitalism is powerful and without it we would be crippled.
Capitalism isn't powerful. As has been repeatedly demonstrated capitalism is a self destructive system of economic usage which has a lifetime of about thirty years, as has been demonstrated over and over again. While having an avenue for profitmaking be in an economic system, any system which devises all it's rules based on making profit (especially so if the profits are short term) is not going to work.
Over time a mixed system of profit and non profit entities with the state as the most important (if not dominant) actor has come out well ahead of any capitalistic system, even in the USA.
Powerful and self-destructive are orthogonal, not muturally contradictory.
A ultimately self-destructive system that can overwhelm and submerge other theoretically more stable systems while it lasted is all powerful despite its instability. The fate of any system that eschew what makes capitalistic system powerful in favor of some other aesthetic concern is very likely to be crushed by someone else’s capitalism.
(March 30, 2020 at 8:59 am)Mister Agenda Wrote: Before politics, before being 'for' my particular issues, I want my president to be decent and competent. I would never vote for Trump unless the alternative was worse, and we're pretty well screwed if that's the situation.
A worse alternative to what trump had been would be trump tomorrow.
