It's because of propaganda. That phrase, and (in the US) the idea that "we are the greatest country in the world" is planted very deep in our minds. That means that no matter how bad things get here, we are assured that nothing better is possible.
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And we literally had Democratic Socialism under FDR in the 30's and 40's that fixed many of the problems of capitalism, until Reagan broke it all down in the 80s
Boomers experience was literally growing up in the solution, yet they fucked it up for everyone.
If democratic socialism had fixed the problems with capitalism, then capitalism wouldn't have won.
Better? Sure. The solution? Sadly it wasn't.
It only started breaking down when people stopped maintaining it. People grew complacent, but not the 1% they were busy, motivated and ruthless.
Nothing in human society lasts, unless you maintain it. Even capitalism.
I like the pre-internet days when everyone just blamed their dad, not all dads.
Did we?
How do you think we ended up with a weekend, overtime and the right for woman to vote?
The greatest generation striked, fought and died against the capitalist billionaire oligarchs and monarchs to get it.
Capitalism is the best system we've got because capitalism killed every other system, not due to any virtue on capitalism's part.
I'd be down to try just about anything else at this point.
Killing other systems is a form of "virtue" though, because as idealistic as anyone wants to be, whatever system we make will exist in a competitive ecosystem. Want to make a functional communism? Well, it has to be able to survive assaults from capitalism. A system cannot just be "moral" or "good", it also has to be strong or ruthless enough to protect it's existence from the many forces which will seek to destroy it.
Yes, capitalism has been forced on us at gunpoint, literally (as in Graeber and Wengrow, The Dawn of Everything)
This serial killer is the best doctor weve got, because hes wearing an eye necklace of every other hospital employee.
At first blush that sounds insane, but reality these days is giving The Onion a run for its money.
Whoever says this has not played a fallout game (or watched the show). At some point the only way for evil companies to continue to chase infinite growth is to create the situations that make them rich. This works out terribly when it applies to weapons, bunkers, pharmaceuticals, even the news is incentivised to see the world burn.
It's easier to imagine the end of the world than the end of capitalism
Maybe if you don't know what capitalism is. A lot of people seem to confuse capitalism with markets. It's had to imagine a world without markets, but capitalism is just an ownership system. It's easy to imagine a world made up of cooperatives. It's basically the same world we already have but everyone gets paid more and there are no shareholders.
There's nothing stopping people from working for or with cooperatives or not working for or with corporations. It's just that most people can't be bothered to care. If everyone stopped buying from corporations, corporations would die pretty quick. If everyone bought from cooperatives, they'd be a lot more stable. We're only picking winners and losers via government contracts. The res of the economy is a free for all.
Shows a real lack of imagination.
On purpose, yes. Their way of life requires it.
Capitalism is the best system at eliminating other systems before they eliminate it.
But this is not necessarily capitalism. This is Trump not wanting to go to prison. I know the sentiment in Lemmy is super anti capitalist and with good reason, but let's not fool ourselves. There's a literal Pedophile in Charge trying to flood the zone.
Trump didn't cause climate change mate.
It's not clear what the OP is talking about. It could be the nukes, but it could also be the return to fossil fuels and withdrawal from the Paris Agreement by Trump, "mate".
Well for starters not everything in the world relates to Trump, so it seems unlikely that it would be directly and only about Trump and not the broader implications of capitalism's man-made extinction event we are currently in via climate change.
But sure, Trump.
It was literally the latest news not even a week ago, what are you on about. This whole year has been about the US shitting on everything. Tf are you on about?
This tweet is from 2019 for a start.
And yet you're posting it in 2026? The fuck is that about?
Because capitalism is still fucking killing us and fucknuts are still arguing it's a good system.
How is this so hard to understand?
How is it now about capitalism when we just had a scare about nukes and everything else going on? God, you people are so obnoxious.
The tweet is literally fucking mentioning capitalism????
And you call us obnoxious because you refuse to read and instead try to make it out like Trump is the worst thing in the world and not the global system of exploitation that is killing us all?
Grow the fuck up mate, fucking pathetic act.
No, no, you're right. My bad for not being meticulous when reading your misleading shit from 2016 and focusing on more pressing matters like a power-tripping asshole threatening nukes just a few days ago. My absolute bad for confusing those two by assuming Lemmy is a website about current events when it's consistently stuck in the past. It was all me for browsing this fucking site full of assholes.
Nothing is fucking misleading, the criticisms in the tweet are are relevant today as they were 5 years ago.
And this isn't a news community, why you would only expect cutting edge content is wild.
I said you're right, is that not enough? Nothing is misleading about a tweet from 2016 that overlaps with current events today on a site that focuses 90% about US news all day, every day, after we had a pretty serious scare. You've done nothing wrong. It's my fault for not being meticulous when consuming your outdated shit. My bad for making reasonable assumptions about what looks like current political commentary and skipping over a date. Congrats, you win. My fucking bad.
You appear to be the only one who didn't understand OP.
Trump is a symptom of a much broader issue, he is not the cause.
He did not create racism or white supremacy but he's been able to take advantage of both while increasing hardships on the white populace who voted for him.
He did not create the housing crisis. That's been an ongoing issue for decades, a problem that has gotten worse post-2008 and left unaddressed by two Democratic presidents.
He did not create the institutionalized ponzi scheme that is the stock market but he's taken advantage of it to maximum benefit, likewise many federal level legislators.
He did not invent judicial or government corruption but has used both to his advantage.
He did not create ICE but he's using them to bolster hin image to his foolish followers.
He did not create the military industriar complex or the western fossil fuel industry that uses them to do their bidding.
He's a problem but he's far from being THE problem.
Time for some more Chamelling !