• DarkCloud@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Conservative and libertarian policies:

    Tax cuts = less government revenue, literally defunding the state.

    Privatization = less revenue going to the government, more to the private market, and due to tax cuts, that money isn’t coming back to government.

    Conclusion, the right wing are conducting anti-patriotic economic attacks on the state… Often doing so in a targeted way, funded by billionaire think tanks.

    It’s a major issue that needs to be named, and discussed more openly.

    • OpenStars@discuss.online
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      2 months ago

      It is discussed openly - how to do it again and again and again, discussed over and over ad nauseum, like Kansas going bankrupt repeatedly, or how other states hear how Florida is doing and say “wowie, lemme try that too!” (while expecting the exact opposite outcome, bc “this time will be different”) If you don’t want to take my words at face value alone, check out the YouTube channel Innuendo Studios that has some amazing content especially The Alt Right Playbook.

      The problem is that collectively, as a society, we are very dumb. In fact it is entirely possible that we are too stupid to survive, but I guess we’ll see. We cannot control others though, and it remains to be seen whether we will bother to control ourselves to do what is correct, i.e. to git sum edumacashun ourselves and make a better alternative.

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        2 months ago

        We are far too stupid individually.

        And we think communism and socialism are bad.

        So corporations and oligarchs take everything.