Yes, I realised that was where you must be coming from shortly after I posted.
It is easier for me to see the flaws in soft socialism because I have endured them all my life, and I can see it is certainly not the land of milk and honey you are painting it as. It means a loss of freedom and choice and a feeling of great helplessness because the forces that control your life are beyond your influence. It means poor services like health care so only the very rich can have good health care. I know bad health care is better than no health care but there are plenty of countries that do better than either of ours and most of the ones that do well seem to have a lot of private and charitable provision, not state provision. I fear the hard left because it will magnify those bad things a hundred fold.
I also am genuinely baffled that you do not seem to acknowledge and celebrate the enormous achievements of capitalism. You seem to take the achievements for granted as if they would somehow have occurred without capitalism, and only focus on what happens on those occasions capitalism goes wrong. That is very at odds with how I view the world. I see the natural humans state as one of poverty, ill health and the constant spectre of famine, and it is capitalism that has rescued us from all those things. I admire the simple complexity of capitalism, and the beautiful things that result from it, just as I admire an ecosystem.
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It is easier for me to see the flaws in soft socialism because I have endured them all my life, and I can see it is certainly not the land of milk and honey you are painting it as. It means a loss of freedom and choice and a feeling of great helplessness because the forces that control your life are beyond your influence. It means poor services like health care so only the very rich can have good health care. I know bad health care is better than no health care but there are plenty of countries that do better than either of ours and most of the ones that do well seem to have a lot of private and charitable provision, not state provision. I fear the hard left because it will magnify those bad things a hundred fold.
I also am genuinely baffled that you do not seem to acknowledge and celebrate the enormous achievements of capitalism. You seem to take the achievements for granted as if they would somehow have occurred without capitalism, and only focus on what happens on those occasions capitalism goes wrong. That is very at odds with how I view the world. I see the natural humans state as one of poverty, ill health and the constant spectre of famine, and it is capitalism that has rescued us from all those things. I admire the simple complexity of capitalism, and the beautiful things that result from it, just as I admire an ecosystem.