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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (402325)3/11/2019 11:07:19 AM
From: Sam  Read Replies (1) of 542864
 
This is how stupidity works--talking about "capitalism" or "socialism" as though either of them is one thing and everyone knows what is being talked about. At least AOC partially defined what she meant: that the "quest for profit" overrides any other motive. But then the question becomes, is this really true, even in the US? IMHO, it is partly true and partly not true. But getting into the weeds of how this is so is very difficult, especially in the context of a political campaign or a debate on television, as these lend themselves to sound bites and slogans (as happened on that Morning Joe discussion I linked a few days ago; and they tend to be slightly better about this on that show than on many others, but they too fall prey to slogans, especially Scarborough himself and his wife).
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