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I get tired of people equating American socialism to Greece or even Soviet Russia, thinking that Bernie is going to do some sort of mass wealth redistribution. Bernie is actually trying to get us on par with countries like Sweden or Canada, where capitalism coexists happily alongside socialism in a mixed economy. Bernie isn't going to take everything you own and give it to other people. He wants to tax the people that are actively screwing over millions of other people to keep themselves in the 1%.
But keep being ignorant and believing what corporate media tells you while they keep trying to pay you as little money as possible while making as much money as they can off of you, shipping jobs overseas and hiding income in offshore accounts so they can avoid paying taxes that could easily fund universal healthcare and social programs that would end poverty. Keep believing that the rich are going to give you more money if you keep cutting their taxes until they pay virtually nothing for doing nothing but profiting off of hard-working citizens by playing the stock market. We've been fed the lie of trickle down economics for decades, and the only people that have seen more wealth has been the wealthy thanks to people believing in that bullshit, and the only people that money goes to is themselves and the politicians they pay to get elected so they can make laws that make sure they stay rich.
Keep believing in a system rigged against you by the rich for the rich. I'm fucking tired of believing in it while other countries enjoy rights to basic needs like healthcare and food, things we keep saying people need to work hard for to earn, forgetting that some people are trapped in poverty due to disability or draconian punishments like marijuana possession.
Trump, Hillary, and 90% of Washington doesn't give a shit about you unless you pay their bills and own half the country, and it's time that changes.
Do some damn research and realize that democratic socialism isn't this evil thing that will bankrupt a country. It actually works if done properly, as it is done in pretty much every other first-world country on Earth.
Ignorance pisses me off.
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I get tired of people equating American socialism to Greece or even Soviet Russia, thinking that Bernie is going to do some sort of mass wealth redistribution. Bernie is actually trying to get us on par with countries like Sweden or Canada, where capitalism coexists happily alongside socialism in a mixed economy. Bernie isn't going to take everything you own and give it to other people. He wants to tax the people that are actively screwing over millions of other people to keep themselves in the 1%.
But keep being ignorant and believing what corporate media tells you while they keep trying to pay you as little money as possible while making as much money as they can off of you, shipping jobs overseas and hiding income in offshore accounts so they can avoid paying taxes that could easily fund universal healthcare and social programs that would end poverty. Keep believing that the rich are going to give you more money if you keep cutting their taxes until they pay virtually nothing for doing nothing but profiting off of hard-working citizens by playing the stock market. We've been fed the lie of trickle down economics for decades, and the only people that have seen more wealth has been the wealthy thanks to people believing in that bullshit, and the only people that money goes to is themselves and the politicians they pay to get elected so they can make laws that make sure they stay rich.
Keep believing in a system rigged against you by the rich for the rich. I'm fucking tired of believing in it while other countries enjoy rights to basic needs like healthcare and food, things we keep saying people need to work hard for to earn, forgetting that some people are trapped in poverty due to disability or draconian punishments like marijuana possession.
Trump, Hillary, and 90% of Washington doesn't give a shit about you unless you pay their bills and own half the country, and it's time that changes.
Do some damn research and realize that democratic socialism isn't this evil thing that will bankrupt a country. It actually works if done properly, as it is done in pretty much every other first-world country on Earth.
Ignorance pisses me off.