I can explain this in a very simple way Shoe.
Its because the democrat party is based on victim culture.
Its very simple. The days of the democrat party in its current form have been dead ever since gamer gate basically. It was when we started to see leftism fall apart under the weight of victim culture. All of that "intellectualism" behind the concept of being woke was based on lies about victimhood.
The exact same kinds of lies that are being used to take down Bernie right now are exactly the same poisonous bullshit that started gamer gate. The same kinds of lies that promote socialism are the same kinds of lies that are being used to smear Bernie as well. An ideology cannot sustain itself long term without strong principles.
In order for you to justify socialism you need to base your core tenants around giving things to the weak. This encourages hyper-victimhood psychology.
X people are privileged because of X reason. You are Victims of X people! Lets force them to give you free stuff!
The above is the core tenants of the socialist mindset. Which is also the core tenant of victim culture.
After we get another 4 years of Trump we can all figure out how to reform the democrat party. Start thinking about the future of leftism in general. But most of all, focus on things that are structurally sound. Stop being victims for attention. Stop crying over every little slightly offensive thing. Stop throwing people under the buss for personal gain. Stop being social justice warriors. Stop victim culture.
Crying about how victimized you are makes you look weak. Period, end of story. Warren looks like a completely weak moron right now case and point. The current Drama happening right now is due to the fact that both candidates are strongly rooted in victim culture.
Long term this strategy will be your own undoing because long term most people don't care about the weak. Humans don't give a crap about the weak. Nobody wants to deal with this random bullshit drama. It can work very well short term but after generation Z gets sick enough of it we may very well have created a monster that lacks nearly all empathy. We may have tapped the very last bit of empathy from the well of humanity with victim culture.
Warren is utilizing victim culture to attack Bernie.
Bernie is utilizing victim culture to promise socialism to the weak.
In the video Shoe talks about "At this rate the first female president will be a republican"
Yep, at this rate I agree!
Calm down! Did you suddenly turn into Agamemnon?
Its true though. Most people who claim to help the weak are only doing it for personal gain.
Does that include Christians?
People in general tend to behave this way. There will always be outliers. But most people are usually only willing to do things for personal gain.
So yes
Would you say you agree generally with this instinctive human motivation hierarchy?
(1) PROTECT YOURSELF
(2) PROTECT YOUR FAMILY
(3) PROTECT YOUR TERRITORY
Yeah that list looks pretty good.
Ipso facto, "Most people who claim to help the weak [or do pretty much anything else for that matter] are only doing it for personal gain."
General Esdeath agrees with you!
She always says,
"They died because they are weak!"
but Tatsumi disagrees with you!!
He always says,
"The strong protect the weak"
That chick was pretty hot not gonna lie.
"poor people deserve to die" wow, the quiet part out loud!
If only China had Bernie Sanders style health care am I right? :D
..what? what point are you trying to make?
It doesn't matter because you lack the ability to understand literally anything.
It is so strange to me that I see so many Americans repeat those words so often.
It is my understanding that the US has the largest percentage of its population in the world who do not receive the medical attention they need, due to the exrodinarily high expense.
It is also my understanding that the US has the highest parentage of their population in jail. And the prisons there frequently run businesses and the inmates are used as slave labour lol. These things arise from a communist mind set, this it what the Work Camps in Nazi Germany and Russia were about yet you criticise socialism ?
I don't get it.
Let me ask you a question, is it better to live in a town/city where everyone's basic needs are adequately met, or is it better to have a bunch of people who cant even afford food and shelter?
Its better if prices are low because of competition in the market. Its also better when I am not paying 60% of my income in a super ultra confusing and highly punishing tax system that absolutely insanely fucking sucks especially for cryptocurrency where every transaction has to account for capital gains.
If I had that 35% of my income I would have enough money to pay for the higher prices in the first place even without insurance. I would be able to build some kind of savings and investments as well. More people would be able to build small businesses so they can bring more competition in the market forcing big pharma to have to put up or shut up.
The only reason people cant afford food and shelter right now is because the are held down by socialism in the first place.
I will attempt to outline the difficulty i have understanding your use of the term socialist. Maybe then you can make it clearer for me.
I understand the financial pain much of the world is going through.
I just do not understand why the socialism label being attached to the problem. Here is why, I lived in New Zealand when it was what I think of as socialist (not communist) with a closed economy, full employment, free health care and a reasonable tax structure. Owning your own home was real easy. I can assure you it is nothing like that now lol
Over the last few years we have even seen a rapid increase in homelessness and people begging in the streets just about everywhere! You just never saw that except a few old meth's drinkers (not crystal meth) who lived in the parks around the Cities, the ones I spoke to were ex military guys, but I never saw them begging.
The reason for the decline is that people are living longer and immigration. A socialist structure is designed as a type of ponzi scheme where the first people in tend to fair a lot better. The more humans that come in and are dependent the system the harder it gets to maintain it. This causes a cycle where people will think the only real solution is to increase socialist government programs. Ultimately this causes things to get even worse until things just cannot function anymore.
The ponzi scheme will collapse when the value that citizens provide to society is less than the value needed to maintain the ponzi. All socialist programs like welfare and healthcare are a slow burn towards economic collapse.
Theoretically if the people in charge of maintaining the ponzi are super careful and never make any mistakes then socialism would be vastly superior to other options. The problem is, humans make mistakes and ponzi schemes are merely just a means to an end for profit.
You may find this interesting
Going off the thumbnail the answer is...
Yes, also pretty sure I already saw this.
There is no other option unless we begin setting up some kind of technocracy. But yay that probably will suck too!
Thanks for your reply.
What you are describing does not describe the sequence of events that occurred here. First we had a massive change in our eccanomic structure, we opened up our ecconomy to the outside world.
I still think the socialis label is insufficiant to describe what is going on.
Predatory capitalism seems to describes it better.
Humans are predatory. If you think otherwise I have a super good deal on a bridge I can sell you in Manhattan.