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stronglikedan 8 hours ago

> Capitalism needs constraints.

I'd just be happy with one constraint and that is to forbid the crony capitalism that is rampant today.

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swed420 7 hours ago | parent [-]

> I'd just be happy with one constraint and that is to forbid the crony capitalism that is rampant today.

But "regulated" capitalism inevitably leads to crony capitalism.

What we've arrived at can barely even be called capitalism, and old school capitalism paved the way:

https://web.archive.org/web/20220331174542/https://nymag.com...

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watwut 7 hours ago | parent [-]

The crony capitalism was brought to you literally by companies and millionaires scared of regulation and heavily pushing for deregulation. They supported Trump and republicans by large margin, especially financially.

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swed420 6 hours ago | parent [-]

If you think only one of the two parties of capital are to blame for this timeline, I have a bridge to sell you.

Democrats manufactured consent for Trump's rise in a 1000 ways over decades. Neoliberalism delivered us Trump, who is merely a symptom of this broken system.

Dems/Repubs play good cop/bad cop; always in service to capital interests. We have a uniparty, but people are fooled by reasonable election turnout and close elections. Democracy is an illusion in the US.

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watwut 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Yeah, you know what, the culpability of republicans is so much higher at this point, that yeah, they are the primary responsible for current state.

This both sides game is just how they were enabled again and again by people who like to frame themselves as reasonable above the politics center, but are in fact just their supporters.

	▲	swed420 an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Trump was elevated from meme tier gameshow host to serious candidate thanks to the Dem pied piper "strategy." Dems put more effort into defeating Bernie than they did Trump.