I see, you post only recent pics of Venezuela because it has been a shyte hole country long before current events. You should tell this to people who say Venezuela was one of the richest countries in the world before Chavez. Bullshit and you know its bullshit. Saudi Arabia is an uber socialist country but I don't see you using illustrations from that country to prove your point. Why is that KC?
What is your point, that socialism is OK if done "right"? No. It isn't.
No man is born to lord over another. Therefore, socialism is deepest shyte, as is any other scheme where some men effectively lord over others. Once again, I am on board with your apparent position regarding lies and deceit, but I am not at all in agreement that socialism has anything of net value to offer Freemen, though it may otherwise prove attractive to those of a lesser cloth.
Socialism has absolutely no redeeming quality whatsoever precisely because it it cut from tyranny's bolt.
Oh yea, the average family could have enough resources to put one flat screen tv in every room as opposed to one in the whole house. I am sure that would make them one TV/room happier.
I do not think you can predict this one way or another, even if the likelihoods are with you, where given individuals are under consideration .
There is more to happiness and fulfillment than prosperity
The validity and truth of your assertion turns on one's understanding of "happiness", "fulfillment", and "prosperity" in this specific context. As offered, you've really not said much of anything. Just as you rightly point out the pitfalls of lies and deceit, innuendo and insufficiency are every bit as bad, and I would contend that they are at times worse.
not saying it doesn't help.
Then what?
Sorry that you bought into the neocon propaganda but they are in this situation because of the sanctions not socialism.
You will have to do a whole lot better than your unsupported assertion if a valid argument is part of your goal here.
How is it that the worst effects of socialism always befall countries under US economic barrage?
Question implies facts not as yet in evidence.
This is the problem with your type, you see the world in black and white, capitalism good and anything else cancer.
Truth is truth, even in black and white. Your point is valid, but made too imprecisely - too broadly.
But I think its more complicated than that, I see capitalism as a sweet BMW and socialism/mixed economy as a corolla.
Ultimately, socialism is you walking everywhere with shoes that are falling apart and so ill-fitting that your feet are reduced to wreckage.
One can be fully satisfied driving a corolla and not be depressed even though his driving experience would be much better in a BMW.
BMW? Seriously? I'd rather the Corolla. And F40 or McLaren, OTOH...
I googled neocon interventionism instead and what I saw was a thousand times more terrifying. One day you would wake up and realize how much of a useful tool you have been to the totalitarian overlords running our society, just hope its not too late to act at that point.
The same may be true for you as well.
The tyrants remain. Indeed, they flourish. THey grow stronger by the day, yet virtually all of us remain, quiescent. When was the last time you put an agent to material correction? Never? Me neither, nor anyone I know.
It seems quite clear that you, I, as well as the rest of "us" are quite rather useful to Themme.
Our houses are of glass.
