politics

No, the far left has always been vile, but the DSA is especially annoying because they actively hurt the Democrats and help the Republicans.

Let me ask you this, why can't we regulate capitalism to work for us? Just think of what we can do:

• Greatly expand and enforce strong environmental regulations
• Expand and enforce anti trust laws to break monopolies
• Improve working conditions
• Remove money from politics
• Ban lobbying
• Increase the minimum wage to something livable and tie it to inflation
• Improve the justice system to hold CEOs and other big executives accountable for any crimes they commit and punish them accordingly
• Tie worker wages to CEO salaries or company revenue
• Fix all the tax loopholes and have corporations and billionaires pay their fair share
• Improve the social safety net so people can have their basic needs met
• Expand regulations to protect consumers
• Expand regulations for price gouging and enforce them
• Update our outdated zoning laws to allow for the building of more houses
• Remove the shitty regulations that prevent public transport from being built
• Ban any attempts to equate corporations with people
• Implement ranked choice voting and get rid of first past the vote
• Change the way we measure the health of the economy from GDP and stock market trends to things like median income, life expectancy, levels of happiness, mental and physical health, childhood success rate, rates of substance abuse, crime rates, social mobility, and so on
• Incentivize companies and people that do more to help their communities and punish those that actively harm them

These are not radical ideas and they're not new, these are all already in place in capitalist societies all around the world. We know they work and we know capitalism works, so why not make it better? Capitalism doesn't have to be this dystopian reality where corporations own everything and everybody else lives in poverty struggling to make ends meet. It could also be this great system that is centered around humanity and works to the benefit of the people. A system where the value of a person matters more than a dollar amount. These ideas aren't antithetical to capitalism. Capitalism is just tool, it's a flexible one too, there's nothing stopping us from shaping it to serve us and our values. Why not pursue that instead of trying to pursue some an ideology that has literally failed? After so many attempts, so many failures, so many people killed, when is it time to move on? Marxist socialism isn't the way forward, it's a way of the past.