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2016 Postmortem

socialist_n_TN

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9. I think the key word in your title line is "hope".......

Reply to yallerdawg (Reply #5)

Thu Aug 11, 2016, 12:14 PM

Aug 2016

because history surely hasn't shown it's been more than that. At least over the long term. The MOST that social democratic programs give is a few decades and we're right back to where we were before the programs were instituted. Capitalism and it's excesses cannot be reformed away over the long term. The only permanent solution is socialist revolution.

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Why is recovery taking so long—and who’s to blame? [View all] yallerdawg Aug 2016 OP

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They would rather hurt us... yallerdawg Aug 2016 #2

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Keynesian explanation here........... socialist_n_TN Aug 2016 #3

Democrats simply hope to mitigate the excesses of capitalism. yallerdawg Aug 2016 #5

I think the key word in your title line is "hope"....... socialist_n_TN Aug 2016 #9

We have had "socialist revolution." yallerdawg Aug 2016 #10

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