This isn't off the mark at all, I just wish we'd call the government redistributing money from the poor to the rich what it is: socialism.
Marianne Williamson
 @marwilliamson
6 Nov 2019
All public policy should be based on one core principle: what would help people thrive. Yet that commonsense prescription for creating peace and prosperity is totally at odds with the principle that our society should be organized by the dictates of short term corporate profits.
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Replying to @francesmartel
Except no it’s not. Public policies that guarantee equality of opportunity are not inherently socialistic or capitalistic. With proper financial regulation, we can have capitalism with a conscience.

Nov 6, 2019 · 2:36 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson
I don’t think we’re disagreeing — what I’m calling socialism is government policies like tax breaks for giant corps, which is government redistribution but everyone insists on calling “crony capitalism”
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Replying to @marwilliamson @francesmartel
You’re right that a welfare state isn’t socialism per se but capitalism with a conscience is an oxymoron, regulation can’t fix that