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Not all Republicans are bad.
Wrong triple Trumpers are demons pure and simple.
Capitalism is ok with regulation.
Wrong the system is inherently flawed and feeds into humanities worst impulses.
Was Mitt Romney not the brainchild behind the ACA/Obamacare?
AMA only attempts to solve half of the problem with medical care in the US. Before it access to medical care was gated through insurance and many people (especially children, who are worthless in the capitalist system) were uninsured and therefore had no access to medical care.
Providing access as Obamacare does kind of works, but only by making a Faustian bargain with insurance companies: they are given carte blanche to extract wealth from the population bad and only have to provide the barest fig leaf of medical care.
So...the ACA is bad, but better than what came before.
Capitalism is not directly the problem
Unregulated capitalism is
Nay unregulated system is bad. If you think communism is great, ask people from back then how much fun the purges were, the forced labor, the gulags, etc.
Put fucking wealth caps in place already. Nobody can have a net worth over a million, the rest to tax. THAT makes a difference, that will actually change the world
Putting any other unregulated system in place is just replacing one turd with another, and we've done that a thousand times with no success
Capitalism, like it or not, is the strongest system to generate wealth. The real problem is that we let that wealth just go to a few. Put fucking Wealth caps in place.
You just listed several things related to Authoritarianism, and called them communist
Spoiler: they are the same thing. OK, fine. Not everything Authoritarian is Communist, but everything Communist will end up Authoritarian. Ask East-Europe.
Not everything Social is bad, mind you, but holy shit can it go sideways.
I never said communism is great. I don't know what the solution is, but capitalism isn't it. Just like I don't know the solution to the US voting problem is, but a two party system isn't it.
I think the 2-party system is worse than Capitalism, but by now your Capitalism supports the 2-party system.