re: #205 Shiplord Kirel, Friend of Moose and Squirrel

Your Political Compass
Economic Left/Right: -3.38
Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -6.36

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It’s interesting that most of us fall in about the same range on economic issues. In my case, this reflects my admiration for regulated/capitalist European economies like Sweden and Norway. These demonstrate that heavy investment in human potential yields profit for all. Right wing social darwinists in the US, ie Republicans, seem not to realize that these “socialist” economies have been that way only since shortly after the end of World War II. The same is true for the UK, which still had food rationing and horse drawn milk wagons when I was born there in 1949, and is now rapidly leaving us behind in standard of living. In the meantime the US stagnates and slides backward.

The ignorance many on the Right about the degree to which our economy has worked because our economy is mixed is best indicated by the person who said that the Government “unleashed” corporations during WWII, when in fact it did the polar opposite - told companies what they would make, and bought all of it. The economy has never been as controlled as it was then, but some on the Right believe the opposite.