re: #61 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Back when they were competing with Communism as a world ideology, Capitalists had to put up some sort of pretense of humanity. But with the fall of the USSR, World Capitalism dropped any pretense of humanity or concern for anybody except their own. Their ugliest side came out and although our economy is growing, it is benefiting fewer and fewer people.

This is what a lot of the Bernie Generation is about, but they need someone else to lead it.

I’ve always thought that Communism’s main contribution was to keep the robber barons honest. Today’s capitalists, steeped in Randian dogma, have forgotten something that FDR knew well. Social justice and a safety net are not about fuzzy-minded altruism, much less buying votes. They are about heading off revolution.