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Don’t have to steal it with a functioning democracy. Just outlaw billionaires and tax them out of existence, with a clear and transparent plan to invest the proceeds for the benefit of the people.
Win Congress, restructure SCOTUS, overturn citizens united, and then pass the above reforms. It would get us a long way towards equitability.
Capitalism is inherently incompatible with democracy. When you have a system where people are allowed to gain power over other people, the powerful will stop at nothing to seize more power, including changing the laws.
I don’t disagree with you. I think the ideal democracy would have sufficient constraints on capitalism to ensure this doesn’t happen. Perhaps in addition to the above, a constitutional amendment to get money out of politics and a non-partisan watchdog group with teeth to hammer down any attempts to circumvent.
The problem with keeping capitalism as the system of economics in any form is that it will always degrade back to fascism since the system will inherently have people with power over other people.
Exactly. Something something perfection the enemy of progress. Progressive policies get in the way of them selves by not focusing on your commented problems FIRST. There can be NO progress without overturning of Citizens United.