Well, we already practice socialism to a degree. Social Security and welfare have existed for some time. Roosevelt's 2nd Bill of Rights would have gone a long way to keeping a more equal balance in America.
Social Security and all other welfare entitlement programs are unconstitutional.
And we've been practicing socialism for so long we have to start considering that the United States is expert at it, and it doesn't work.
Socialism never works. It violates human nature.
But a 100% capitalism is heartless for a nation that has a long history of being otherwise.
No, it's not.
Anyone who wants to give to charity can give to charity. How heartless is that? It's more heartless to steal money from people who earn it to buy votes from the poor eagerly wanting to sell their votes. Not to mention that it's unconstitutional.
It's bad enough that our corporations (Wal-Mart, Nike, etc) screw over many workers abroad,
Do they? Providing a job is "screwing people over"?
We need to be Americans first
And socialists never.
Socialism and the kleptocracy and slavery that goes with it are not compatible with the American ideal and they're not Constitutional, either.
corporations second. Since around the 80s, we have reversed that.
No. The fact of the corporation has been with this country since the first settlers arrived. The ability to incorporate is enshrined in the Constitution, under the First Amendment freedom to assemble and the Fourth Amendment freedom to own property,
Washington caters to corporations long before it caters to Americans,
Here's a novel idea:
Go back to demanding the government in Washington be limited by the explicit bounds of the Constitution, and the government will then no longer have the power to run a catering business.
We also have to consider the environment.
Absolutely. First we need to criminally prosecute the people promoting the Global Warming Hoax, and start firing the crew on the EPA that have been causing so much trouble. Once our environment is cleared of these pollutants, we can see how the improvements work out.
We are in a "Progress Trap." This is a term best explained using Easter Island.
Ya think the US is going to deforest itself? Do you seriously believe the logging companies are going to cut down all the trees, when their business is selling tree products?
Extremists who cite the unlikely aren't credible and pose a real threat to public safety.
Eventually, one guy visited the last tree on that island and hacked it down.
You know this for a fact? The movie Rapa Nui is a documentary? How certain are you that the people didn't protect the last tree until it died of old age? And, interestingly, Easter Island is too far from land for the indigenous forest to have been a remant cut off from the mainland by rising sea levels. No, the indigenous forest was also an immigrant forest, and it was only a matter of time before some chance event reseeded the island with trees of some sort.
Another example of the "Progress Trap" is in Canada. I forget what the site is called, but it was a location where hunters thousands of years ago used to run hundreds of bison over a cliff. They had evolved their hunting abilities to the point where they figured out that they didn't even have to try. They could just herd hundreds of them off a cliff and pick a few out for dinner. Eventually, they killed out all the game like this. They knew that the herds were becoming harder and harder to find, yet they practiced this until starvation took them or they migrated to find food elsewhere.
Just in case you missed it, but there were massive bison herds in North America until the middle of the 1800's. The indians never had a chance of exterminating THOSE megafauna. It took white men, white man rifles, and white man's horses, to almost make the bison extinct.
Capitalism is a progress trap in today's civilization.
Okay, we should only allow nations that were capitalist to remain capitalist. Fortunately for me, that means the United States should remain free. It's going to be rough on India, China, Ethiopia, Zaire, Cuba, and all the other places in the world ravaged by the evils of socialism, but hey, its not my problem what happens over there.
We see the rain forests, the oceans, and ecosystems being destroyed exponentially year after year, yet we continue to "progress" and push as if we can't see an end. 100% capitalism is not good for the economy as a whole, people as a whole, and the environment as a whole. Right now we consume 130% of what the earth can produce a year. This is mostly all through capitalism and it is the very few in corporate offices who are getting rich. In the mean time the bison are runnning out and the Easter Island heads can't be moved as they once could.
You got any clue what the word "exponentially" means? Want to know why the jungles in Brazil are being stripped?
It's because NO ONE OWNS THEM.
They're the "commons". And like all commons everywhere, no one owns them, so everyone seeks to maximize the immediate profit they can get from them before they're used up.
It's what socialism is really good at, destruction.
Japan can run around murdering whales for fake scientific reasearch because NO ONE OWNS the whales. There's no legal recourse anyone has to stop them. So now there's a popular TV show about terrorists engaging in piracy against Japanese ships in the Great Southern Ocean. What idiocy. Auction the damn whale pods to interested buyers, and sue poachers in international court when they're caught. Only licensed pod owners could sell whale product on the lawful market, and write the terms of the auction to ensure that the owners of the pod are stewards required to manage their property to increase it's numbers, something any sane capitalist would do as a matter of practical business sense. No rancher slaughters his herd in one season, or even so much that natural increases won't be able to keep him in business for the long term.
The problem with the whales is that they're part of the commons.