A Simple Bit of Advice

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I agree. Socialism is just awful, absolutely terrible.

"But, but... it hasn't been tried yet", and "That wasn't real socialism!"

Socialism is the work of Satan.

But I love bureaucracy, red tape and useless laws that hamper prosperity and happiness.

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Advice for those who actually believe that socialism can still work, or has "never been tried yet".
I live in the state of Victoria, a socialist hellhole run by a virtual dictator called Daniel Andrews (he's the premier of the state).
During the so-called lockdowns his regime was vindictive and punitive, and the ordinary citizenry was basically under house arrest for more than a year. Melbourne, the capital, became THE most "locked-down" city in the entire world, and it is still an awful place to live.
Businesses have fled the state or gone bankrupt, the bureaucracy has expanded like a balloon, and government secrecy is at an all-time high. "Woke" agendas have been promoted, and [i]parents[/i] who try to dissuade their own children from indulging in gender fluidity fantasies can actually be sent to prison. Abortions are on demand and up to and including the TWELFTH month! Taxes have skyrocketed in order to pay for the horrendous debt the state is in (it's effectively bankrupt).
Prior to the epidemic, he tried to sell out the state to the Chinese government, by embracing the "belt-and-road" initiative that has seen many small nations effectively become controlled by the CCP.

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SW-User

What actually does work? For anything to "work" would require a complete revamp of human nature. Meanwhile we have various systems that just seem to create different winners and losers.

Of course, some would claim that their own allegiance is to a purely non-ideological, totally pragmatic political outlook and who condemn all the ideologies, especially of the "left". Yet they too, if you look closely, are driven by their own formulaes and presumptions, even by their own (often unseen or unacknowledged) greed and need to look after particularly already well heeled members of society. So it goes on.

In the UK a fairly efficient state run rail network was handed over to privatisation in 1997. Since, fares have risen 50% in real terms, and polls show that two thirds of passengers no longer trust their trains to run on time. Again, some economists say that the actual cost of running the various networks is now £64 billion more.

And Water? Once again, now privatised, since when £66 billion has been handed over in share dividends, while on average raw sewage is now pumped into our seas and rivers about 800 times every day.

Policy catastrophies.

So keep kicking what is only a word.

Cassie2083

@SW-User It's true that if someone wants perfection they're not going to find it, because every conceivable political system that one could dream up would have serious flaws, but you have to admit that some systems really are better than others. A political regime that persecutes and locks up dissenters isn't one that I want to live under, and that's what socialist regimes consistently do.

SW-User

@Cassie2083 I would use the words "Authoritarian regimes" rather than "Socialist". Authoritarian regimes are of the left and right.