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Originally Posted by host
I read many comments in TFP politics that lament the "broken" political system, with "special interests" often pointed to as the culprits. Posters seem to believe that "one party is as bad as the other". Outside of roachboy and strange_famous, I see almost no one willing to engage in serious and informed discussion of alternative economic systems. In an era where we begin to notice and whisper about the unsustainability of a growth obsessed, oil addicted economy, why are we unable to compare ourselves to other western societies who are on different paths? Will a voice from Appalachia, writing on the internet, make us notice capitalism's failings?
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Because we are mostly not members of the lunatic fringe. We have problems with various aspects of the government, but as a whole think they system is a good system. Its not perfect, but it has worked better than ANY system to date. People are better off in this system then under any other system in human history. So when people come along and want to throw it all away for unproven dreams which seem contrary to human nature, they are going to be ignored.
You might be dissatisfied but most of us LIKE the current system. Maybe some don’t like the current leaders, maybe some don’t like the opposition, but the system is fine.
And finally all the talk of a ‘real’ left is just armchair revolutionary bullshit. Lets take the logistics here. First off people like me have the numbers, we have the money, we have the education and we have the will. If America ever looked like it was going in such a direction do you think we would allow it? You arn’t going to win a revolution with “ laboring brothers, beer belly, ignorance, crack habit and all,”.