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In reply to the discussion: Capitalism is NOT a dirty word. [View all]PATRICK
(12,227 posts)This is exactly the status quo dogma we heard before during the McCarthy erawhen anything socialist was smeared comfortably with the anti-Commie paint. Since this awesome statement stretches back over decades I tripped over the eighties when liberals became miffed when the tar rolled over them just as successfully. So maybe the post means we want some pre-Reagan renaissance of the way the party was before it folded its tent with many of the oligarchs living resentfully(and temporarily) under its regulatory auspices.
Oligarchs, like God, or rather Mammon, the Molloch god of some Americans are forever. Who knew these fellow apes were more untouchable than the divine, so necessary to submit to, so worthy of the term "necessary evil" that better had better adopt their virtues around them accordingly?
Now only the real nice nice super rich back the party. That handful should even been easier to list. But a liberal oligarchy? Liberals have been proudly and uselessly resisting the tar for decades. Most surviving Dem officials have been even more bent out of whack than ever in the flight from socialism, which arguably was still a matter of self-limitation in the FDR era. To accommodate both capitalism and the corporate rich, even the cabal that tried to overthrow FDR. It is hard to achieve such a sanguine philosophical attitude toward a black and white battle where a modest defense of moderate liberalism means worse than nothing in the face of both global catastrophes and those who continually profit from that- and the death of capitalism one way or the other.
In any event, all of the dogma are mere 1950-s talking points reduced to the pablum that we got in grade school. The war for words has been utterly lost now that the Corporate Pravda terms have degraded in reality to absurdities. No wonder more young people are actively seeking out Socialist
speakers than are rushing with wild enthusiasm to the new realistic, meek and sensible and still spit upon(by all sides) liberals.