Is Donald Trump one of the good guys?
Ken iss, 57 min.
You think you've seen it all, and then the Yanks put Trump in the Whitehouse.
Unbef'uckinlevable.
Nae sure TBH (as regards the first two).
From what I know of Cuba and Venezuela there's elements of the model in play, but both nations fall within a geographic sphere of influence of the U.S so would have little chance of success.
Corbyn put together a manifesto that I could have damn near voted for, but in the end I made a single issue choice.
What the socioeconomic model he'd have put together in government would have looked like I have no idea.
I get the impression my original point has been missed.
I was not espousing the practical virtues of a bona fide Socialist/Communist economic model (for what it's worth, in today's global free market, I don't think a model of this nature could work unless that particular bation was wholly resource and productivity self-sufficient).
My point was ore linguistic than ideological.
Namely, the practice of ill-informed people throwing the phrase "Lefty" "Commy" and "Socialist" in a pejorative fashion at anything they don't like, when it is patently no of those things.
I was on another message board where this particularly dumb woman, from NZ who hated Jacinta Arden, was railing against a policy relating to the indirect taxation of motorists (road tax or fuel duty.........can't recall which).
Apparently, this policy, indirect rather than direct taxation being an acknowledged tool of the right, rendered her a "Socialist b1tch".
I think this is a by-product of the whole politics as a team sport thing, which in turn is one of the products of a two party political system.
Let’s hope that they don’t bother trying