The only answer can be David frum. Whenever tryin to decide what is least appealing or most ghoulish in journalism, the answer is always David frum.

I dunno if I’d call- aggressively pushing the Iraq war, writing that Saddam was connected to 9/11, writing the “axis of evil” speech full of lies to sway a nation of voters to support the war, shouted down any dissent as “unamerican” and calling them traitors and enemies- “interesting”.

“Jews worked with the Nazis and that Hitler supported zionism ever deeper.”

So who should we give the control to? Not the government or their corporate buddies?

In effect, it’s a form of socialist redistribution of wealth.

Maybe that kid is bright enough to realize socialism is a broad tent of economic and social systems and Marxism is just one variation.

Socialism was coined before Marx. It really best looked at as a set of goals for society rather than a definite philosophy. The philosophy can be defined once you start getting into the ideologies to achieve a socialist state. You seem to think socialism can only be communism (Marxism). Libertarian socialism and…

Yea I’m just saying socialized medicine is good. And relatively attainable.

That’s not the measure used. Maybe just start by comparing infant death rate and life expectancy?

Yea it only happens in Africa, right?

Didn’t know that, that’s awesome.

Capitalism fails multiple times in everyone’s lifetime. We just spend a fuckton of money to save the system when it does.

There has been a definition creep (over many decades) but it is needed. Socialism can’t just mean hard line Marxism-Leninism.

The Nordic model is a social democracy. It qualifies, barely, as a socialist model.

Socialism is a pretty wide tent. I’d say they make it in as a social democracy.

It’s prisoners at this moment.

The point is the Us could be a fuck of a lot better if it tried.

well by that measure Cuba has less deaths by malnutrition than the US per person and is actually near the top for 172 countries. The rate of US deaths by malnutrition is more than double that of Cubas. Not sure what you’re getting at- if you are saying there isn’t a large amount of this population that can’t afford…

Yea I get that, just saying realize Cuba is a very very poor country and yet can still provide for their citizens in ways we can’t, or more accurately- choose not to.

Actually we’re the richest country on earth. It’s just all the benefits are consolidated into the hands of a few.