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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Are you kidding? All crown corporations are getting privatized, they're intentionally destroying social services in order to justify giving more space to the private sector, they only built housing long enough to comfortably house boomers and X and then they gave up...

No it's not social democracy at this point, it was still sold as being it way longer than it actually was though and that's how people became sour to it. If you convince people that social democracy is them not being able to afford to live, they'll get hooked to the first alternative they find.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

The reason I asked is because I feel that you are blaming social democracy and I think you are painting with too broad a brush. Capital should serve the state, the people, not the other way around. Social democracy is in part about strong regulations on capital. We need to stand by that and support it. Throwing it away cedes power to capital.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I'm not blaming social democracy, I'm describing how people feel because they've kept being told that's what they were getting even when they weren't until they started to believe that social democracy was the problem to begin with.

We won't get social democracy with the choices offered to us either so what then?