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[–] captainstrange 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

They create the problems by introducing socialism, and then they point at the entire edifice and shout "see! see CAPITALISM doesn't work!"

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[–] Mylon 1 point 0 points (+1|-1) ago 

The United States leading up to World War 1 was an incredibly unstable place. Thanks to economic liberalism, it was in recession about half the time for the two decades prior. Because economic prospects were so poor, enough people were willing to fight far away in some European bullshit than protest like what happened in Vietnam. Around this time, many countries were so fed up with the old ways that they turned to communism. It wasn't until the World War 2 era that countries decided to try something different. Socialism. Germany's flavor of socialism was so successful that it took the whole world to stop them. The US's flavor of socialism (social security and other changes made in the New Deal) was so successful that we had a golden age in the 50s and 60s, and even after 40 years of stagnation that growth we saw still has made us feel better than our peers.

Socialism HAS worked. Germany, United States. The Nordic model. It's the neoliberals are the ones that reverted much of what made America so great in the 50s and 60s. They're the ones saying we need MORE free trade and we need to bust unions and import cheap labor and to destroy environmental regulations so we can make smog like China does.