(This post was written when Senator Sanders was leading in the state primaries. It looked for a moment like he might win the democratic nomination. Turns out the party had other plans. The Democrats betrayed Bernie and the public. Joe Biden became president and we found out Trump spent 8 trillion dollars of borrowed money in four years. Proving my cyinical predictions, here, of his intentions, were correct.)
Cannibalism is a metaphor for capitalism.
Capitalism is an economic system of, by, and for investors, who maximize their profits by forcing labor to compete for less.
You can only make so much money forcing labor to compete, so emergency taxpayer bailouts help provide a veil of success to the scam.
Every bailout paid for by the taxpayer is proof that capitalism has failed. It’s a mathematical and historical fact. It’s a wealth extraction scam.
Unless the goal is more inequality, capitalism continues to fail.
The terms socialism and capitalism are themselves misleading words defined to deceive. In reality, all governments use whatever economic polices are necessary to perpetuate themselves.
It’s all academic theory, practiced as necessary, for incumbency.
The main distinction that matters when it comes to economic policy is whose money is used for the investment strategies a society needs, and who will profit from that investment? Will it be the public interest? or those the government borrows the money from?
The government could just tax those it borrows money from to get the money it needs, but it doesn’t. It should, but it doesn’t.
That’s how you can tell who the government serves.
We have an economy that undermines democracy and increases inequality as public policy, under the banner of capitalism.
Trump represents capitalism. Bernie represents socialism. Both of which are just labels defined in a way to mislead the voter from the more important point, which again is,
Who should prosper from the creation of money and investment, the public interest or private interests? That is the appropriate question to consider when pondering socioeconomic design. That’s what the government does. It negotiates socioeconomic design.
The question is, and this election is about, a choice between capitalism, which is the conflict-based economy, on the Trump side, against socialism and the health-based economy on the Bernie side.
This election will either solidify the swamp as government, or begin the healing. Will the voters prefer healing with Bernie, or double down with Trump on the debt based prosperity we’ve been practicing forever?
Capitalism is likely to win because it cheats every chance it gets. It wants more secrecy, more authority, and more money. All of which it gets by taking it from the public.
Trump is merely the current cleaner for the bipartisan intergenerational Ponzi Scheme we call capitalism. The bubble will burst and the next “correction” could get real ugly, or perhaps even perpetually sustained in a state of real ugliness.
The next Great Depression will happen because the public’s money has been stolen, legally, through a “system” described as broken by some and capitalism by others. capitalism is the conflict-based economy, by any other name. It’s the same thing.
Capitalism is actually an extraction scam designed by and for the establishment, for perpetual privilege by preventing democracy with inequality, counterfieting, and bribery. etc.
Socialism, on the other hand, just wants to get along. It’s not going to war to steal your money, that’s capitalism. Socialism simply prefers a more ethical approach to wealth distribution, through taxation, rather than extraction and inflation.
Still, I don’t know why Bernie uses the label, socialism. What Bernie wants to do is not socialism. It’s not socialism to reduce student debt. It’s just the right thing to do. It’s not socialism to insist that the government be ethical, or promote the general welfare. That’s not socialism, so why take the label? Whatever.
The public mostly understands socialism as being a compromise between capitalism and communism. A communist government controls everything, in theory, like dictators, allegedly for the greater good. In reality that is a fairy-tale, or maybe a goal. It’s never happened.
By contrast, capitalism controls the government by controlling the money, for the establishment.
Because an honest democracy is not possible in either system, some degree of socialism is inevitable in both.
The degree of socialism in a society is equivalent to its civility. Socialism and civility are the same thing.
If Bernie wins, which he won’t, congress will continue to resist him.
Bernie will likely lose because Trump will definitely cheat. It’s what he does. To think otherwise would be naive.
Trump will likely win, because money is representation. That’s what people want, more money. People will vote for Trump because they think he will give them more money, and send the invoice to uninvested taxpayers.
If you have enough money you don’t need political representation. You are represented by your money. The house of representatives is for people who need representation and can’t afford it. It’s not for those who can afford to give money to candidates. That’s corruption, legalized.
The government should be occupied by people who protect the public interest, like a public union, and negotiate with private interests, such as political parties, and corporations. That’s what the government should be, a unified body of public interest representation.
Now with our new high tech ability to access information and understanding, conduct consensus, and share ideas, an alternative to the current system can be easily discussed and developed, understood and shared, and eventually implemented for a healthy and sustainable conflict-free society. It can be done.
A better system based on modern technology and the age old philosophy of democracy, peace and justice, law and order, and the like, is possible right now, with the technology available to us right now, and affordable to us, right now.
We can win if you help us fight back. Vote Bernie!