First the first time ever, millions of people will be voting this year who weren't even born in the 20th century. They have no intention of carrying the burden of bad ideas left over from a former century nor should they. Give 'em something new or you'll be forced out of the room
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Marxism being chief among those bad ideas.
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1/ I don't think they're arguing for pure Marxist theory so much as they're making a legitimate argument against unfettered capitalism. Capitalism has so strayed from its ethical central that millions of people have every right to now ask "What has global captitalism done for me?
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2/Since 1980 we've so deregulated capitalism - through dissolving of fire walls, removal of anti-trust barriers and egregious permission for corporate America to unduly influence elections & policy w/ their money- that capitalism now serves the few at the expense of the many.
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3/ Why would someone celebrate capitalism if they can't even participate in it? How can you be a capitalist is you have no access to capital? I totally understand young people who say, "What about socialism is supposed to scare me - the free health care or the free college?"
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4/It's up to American capitalism now to correct its course; it isn't up to young people to venerate it for no reason. It's become so untethered to any ethical or moral consideration for people or planet (+ our govt has allowed it ) that people's disgust is totally understandable.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @ds_hoffman
5/ I don't say this as someone who's anti-capitalist by the way. But I saw what happened in 1980. That's when we deviated from a social consensus that corporations should at least try to care about people's lives & dignity. The ball is in their court now, to reclaim a moral core.

Aug 17, 2020 · 11:17 PM UTC

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Replying to @marwilliamson @ds_hoffman
Morality is not even necessary. A vibrant capitalist economy is NOT one: * dominated by monopolies * bent to served big industry to the detriment of small companies * where meritocracy is subjugated to the interests of an elite * where the rape of The Commons is normalized.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @ds_hoffman
Reagan's "trickle down economics" basically gave them the license to steal. Anyone that has a business degree had to take a social responsibility class at some point. It obviously didn't make much of an impression on those guys.
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Replying to @marwilliamson @ds_hoffman
Yea that's why the giant Google monopoly is so conservative, right. U preach poison. I have news for u, capitalism is what makes our country great. It gives everyone endless opportunities. U must have forgotten that Amazon and Facebook are giant leftist corporations.