I was referring to far right responses to valid criticisms of capitalism as an attempted socialist take over. You hear it often. It’s insane.

One does not have to be an advocate of socialism or communism or any other system to have a valid criticism of capitalism as expressed in the here and now. If it were working as advertised, it would be working for everyone … as advertised.

In my view, the issue is corruption, not whether or not a country follows any particular economic system. That’s simply a choice. None of them will work well when burdened by corruption and corrupt practices.

To be fair, I have the same sorts of thoughts about the far left constantly beating the drum, “capitalism is evil”.

It doesn’t help. It’s not solving any of our very real problems. In fact, most of these issues are complex and multidimensional. Constantly looking at one element and one element only does not give one a view of the whole picture.

In the same vein, social programs are not inherently bad. Government is not inherently bad. Money is not inherently bad. Private sector control of wealth is not inherently bad. All can operate corruptly. Then they are bad.

The New Deal was not a perfect program, never said it was. But it was better than Hoover’s approach of doing nothing. It got a lot more right than it got wrong. For the time. Does that mean that those programs should still stand today? Maybe not. Today is massively different than yester-yore.

We need to make some changes. I’d like to see some real discussion and problem solving not finger pointing and name calling from both sides. I’d like to get out of the weeds of disingenuous discourse, faux expertise, propaganda scholarship, and political rhetoric.

Wouldn’t you?