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[–] 7 points 1 year ago (1 child)

Oh I know. I took a few courses on economics in college too. It’s absolutely insane and seems so obvious to me that this should be seen as bad economic policy. It’s wild that a commonly held belief by a lot of people is that conservative politicians are good for the economy, they just lack social morality or some shit. Their economics are absolutely idiotic and horrible.

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  • [–] 4 points 1 year ago

    To be fair, the "other side" isn't really any better.

    I've kind of seen left/right as socialistic/capitalistic respectively. Personally, I'm bigger on social/community/common (for everyone) services, like universal healthcare, than I am for capitalism in general.

    There absolutely cannot be consolidation of power, making any government more like an authoritarian regime, regardless of social/communal views or objectives, but at the same time, it is theoretically possible to have a healthy amount of socialism in a democracy. Many EU nations have struck a good balance of these things already, and my country, Canada, isn't super far behind them. America is still stuck in cave-man, aggressive capitalism times.

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