Bernie Sanders and the socialist Christmas spirit

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20. I know you're sincere, but socialism constrains freedom

far more than capitalism, both regulated and unregulated. Sure, everything's relative and people of socialist ideology have definitely been involved in freedom movements. But socialism's still universalist, collectivist, communal in essence, and individual freedoms take huge hits. Not just economically either.

What happens when the collective is the only medical device manufacturing employer in an 11-county area and a worker's cultural views don't suit the committee? That'd be under Sanders' system where management would tend to be local, not normally subject to centralized national management. Except when it wasn't. Since all systems are made up of people, they all have the same human flaws and cultural traits.

Including greed and lust for position, btw. All socialist systems develop hierarchies of have-a-lot-mores and have-lesses. And unlike under capitalism, economic mobility is one of the freedoms that takes a really big hit.

Bottom line, smart freedom fighters don't fight for socialism. That's strictly for people who'd be happy with less freedom in return for what they imagine would be more security.