• Hyper_red [she/her, she/her]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    It’s wild to me, less than a 100 years ago the US government with the new deal did the greatest act of self preservation and attempt to kill socialism in the US. And they’re acting like they can just coast off something from the 1940s.

    Like at least the capitalist politicians of my grandparents knew they had to do shit to preserve capitalism and the state so socialist revolution doesn’t happen.

    They gave up in the 70s

    It would be so easy to. Just make housing and healthcare and they could probably keep capitalism going in America for like an extra 50 years.

    But they refuse to do it.

    • Ildsaye [they/them]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      The first liberals competed against the past, the incumbent forces of feudalism. Later they were energized by the effort to suppress the socialist future. Now after several generations of uncut capitalist realism, the mortality of capitalism is completely inconceivable to them. Every acknowledgment of the spiraling disrepair is merely a psychological attack on the entrepreneurial spirit.