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Bernie Sanders Announces White House Bid

posted by martyb on Tuesday February 19 2019, @05:14PM   
from the how-many-candidates-are-there-now? dept.

realDonaldTrump writes:

"Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT)........is launching a second run for the White House in 2020." breitbart.com/politics/2019/02/19/bernie-sanders-2020-bid

"Reaction to the news was split......with some supporting the 77-year-old and others upset with the move." foxnews.com/politics/trump-campaign-pokes-fun-at-bernie-sanders-2020-announcement-as-reaction-splits-on-candidacy

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• Re:Political Highlander(Score: 2) by NotSanguine on Wednesday February 20 2019, @11:22PM

  by NotSanguine (285) <NotSanguineNO@SPAMSoylentNews.Org> on Wednesday February 20 2019, @11:22PM (#804274) Homepage Journal

  With what would you replace it, friend?

  Dictatorship of the proletariat according to the Transitional Plan (the one that deals with the Death Agony of Capitalism), which should give way to a kind of federated libertarian socialism once counterrevolution has died out.

  Of course, the idea of socialism in one country is bunk, and so the dictatorship of the proletariat must be put into power by the process of permanent revolution.

  My estimate is that a socialist culture will begin to emerge after 40 years of wandering in the desert of the dictatorship of the proletariat, and the future history of Star Trek (between the Bell Riots and N-Day) also roughly agrees, so this must simply be the way it is done.

  I guess someone hasn't read his Santayana, or at least hasn't taken it to heart.

  Lord Acton [wikipedia.org] pegged it, and long before the numerous failed attempts at creating a socialist paradise through revolution and the so-called "dictatorship of the proletariat."

  That's not to say that capitalism coupled with democracy or (small 'r') republicanism are the best systems. They are, as Mr. Churchill rightly pointed out:

  Many forms of Gov­ern­ment have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pre­tends that democ­ra­cy is per­fect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democ­ra­cy is the worst form of Gov­ern­ment except for all those oth­er forms that have been tried from time to time.…
  [emphasis added]

  I don't pretend to have all the answers, but it's clear that as long as there is scarcity, there will be those who will seek to control more resources than others. As such, it makes more sense (and fetttered capitalism along with democracy has done much better at this than any other system we've tried so far) to attempt to create a world without scarcity, where we all may create the lives and meaning that we choose.

  Is that a pipe dream? Maybe. Will we achieve such a society without upheaval and violence? Probably not. Is it a worthy goal? Most certainly.

  --
  No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical. --Niels Bohr

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