It's both amusing and tragic that terms that are overloaded in antithetical ways--'socialism', 'meritocracy'--make debate practically impossible, save between parties of extreme good faith and fastidiousness around definitions.
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Take 'socialism', for example. The entire debate around this whole AOC/Bernie/New Dems/anti-commie Right/etc. boils down to one side thinking 'Denmark' and the other 'Venezuela' when the term is cited. That's basically the entire low-level Twitter debate right there.
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I agree. But this masks a legitimate debate that we can’t get to because we’re stuck on semantics. I like Denmark just fine, but going full DSA leads some places to look like Denmark and some like Venezuela. We should be careful
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It's not the economic system at fault then, is it? There's a lot more about a government than economic system.. How are leaders elected? How high is corruption? How involved are the citizens? How is oversight handled? What are the cultural attitudes?
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Yes. Those are the conversations that we ought to be having instead of “socialism rules, capitalism drools!” or vice versa
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