Anonymous dr.apple 9w

Thats a huge fucking problem. Imagine trump with more power.

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Anonymous #3 9w

Socialism doesn’t necessarily give “more power to the government”. It mainly makes more things the responsibility of the government, things like the welfare of the countries people, you know, kinda like what the government is supposed to do in the first place?…

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Anonymous #4 9w

Not really, a lot of European countries have many socialist policies and I wouldn’t call them authoritarian. The main reason so many “socialist” countries became authoritarian is due to cia intervention or because they were founded on agrarian societies rather than industrial

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Anonymous dr.apple 9w

I would argue that it worked for a time because they were cohesive societies with shared cultural moral values and that they are now leaning towards authoritarianism in areas where they have lost that social cohesion for various reasons

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Anonymous #4 9w

…what various reasons might that be… Also a majority of actual authoritarian countries are capitalist.

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Anonymous dr.apple 9w

Making more things the responsibility of the government is the same as giving more power to the government.

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Anonymous dr.apple 9w

The government exists to protect natural rights, not to run the economy.

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Anonymous canesfan 9w

Norway isn’t socialist.

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Anonymous dr.apple 9w

The more capitalist a country is, the more democratic it tends to be

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