They're trying to rectify that, but the military and police are very different from North America or Western Europe. Different enough to decide that serving the leader takes precedence over serving their people.
Scene: America. Time: 20 years from now. Supreme Leader Donald Trump executes a free thinker for trying to bring knowledge and the press back into the country. The rest of the world looks on and says "Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't they do it to themselves by electing a Trump into office?"
I seem to recall several countries turned dictatorships that once had great democracies with systems of checks and balances. Such as Germany when they elected Hitler, or even Cuba before their totalitarian coup. Perhaps what these people and countries need are empathy because ultimately it is not the vast majority of the people who control what happens but the people who take power under false pretenses or become corrupted after. Signed Same Guest.
There's actually a way Trump could keep himself in power without an election. It involves a world war and it's not pretty.
A supreme leader Trump 20 years from now though? Haha, no. He's already showing severe signs of dementia.... at worst it'll be another 3.5 years.
you mean the Obama the tripled the stock market? The Clinton that gave us our first surplus in 35 years (that was then used to give tax breaks by Bush Jr. before the wars started)? You mean better than that? If you want to blame something like Dodd-Frank or Glass-Steagal on Clinton, remember that the republicans had basically tied his hands and FORCED both into his bills. If you want to blame Obama for a problem with the ACA remember that the idea would have worked if health insurance companies were forced to compete across state lines and negotiation of drug prices were both allowed. Who championed those fantastic fucking ideas? Republicans.
So in asian countries for some reason they need more baby formula/powdered milk so they buy it cheap in countries like Australia and send it to China and such countries to be sold at higher prices.
Situation in Venezuela isn't exactly good, students get killed when they protest, they must buy limited goods for their family (they can't even buy more than 1 or 2 paper rolls) shit is going down there, i hope a couple of friends of mine who live there are ok
Venezuela's problems don't stem from socialism... it's the fact their entire economy is based on one good, oil, which has been in decline for the past few years and has bankrupted the country.
Can we agree the idea of socialism is about the common good and the idea of capitalism is about self interest? Can we agree that 90% of humans will do something unethical to get ahead if they feel they won't get caught? Guess which one rewards that type of behavior?
This is just basic common sense.
The idea of capitalism is you get what you work for. More work equals more, whatever it is that you want. The idea of communism is you get what we give you, more work just equals more work. This is just basic common sense.
1) Capitalism: an economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.
Literally nothing about that is "you get what you work for".... otherwise we'd have teachers making a million a year instead of athletes. It's more like "you get what the market will bear".
2) socialism =/= communism.
3) did you attend public school? Do you drive on roads? Do you believe in the basic idea of cops and firefighters?
Congratulations, those are all socialist programs.
Jeez, yeah, like, in the sense that it's controlled by the government, but don't twist the argument. You and I both know that we're talking about government control over the means of production.
A supreme leader Trump 20 years from now though? Haha, no. He's already showing severe signs of dementia.... at worst it'll be another 3.5 years.
This is just basic common sense.
Literally nothing about that is "you get what you work for".... otherwise we'd have teachers making a million a year instead of athletes. It's more like "you get what the market will bear".
2) socialism =/= communism.
3) did you attend public school? Do you drive on roads? Do you believe in the basic idea of cops and firefighters?
Congratulations, those are all socialist programs.