Socialism is not the same as a MIXED Economy

[kennetha]

34. Not at all

Striking the right balance is really politically difficult. There are always those who want more government and those who want less.

But I think there is potential even there. In a well-functioning two party state, you are likely to have a relatively more "Statist" party and a relatively more "market-oriented" party and they are going to compete over where the balance should be struck. If both parties are realist, driven by information, accept feedback, sometimes the market oriented party will have the better solution, sometimes the statist party will. But if each is willing to learn, admit when they are wrong, adjust, etc, that is my view of democratic politics within the context of a mixed economy at its best. I would want to live neither in a one party "marketist" dominated state nor a one party "statist" dominated state.

Unfortunately, our own marketist party (aka the Republicans) has gone almost completely insane, completely fantasy based, rather than fact based.