I mean, this is a very exaggerated and cartoonish impression and I'm not particularly certain that you're trying to engage in good faith on this one - but even just a bit of democratic worker involvement in the decision making of a business would be a welcome change. Why shouldn't there be democracy within a workplace?
I do find it interesting that you dedicate a large portion of your posts here to seething over Bernie (and his not being a proper Democrat, which is fine, whatever - Bernie is not popular amongst the centre/centre-right contingent on this board and I get that) yet comparatively little on a clearly right wing billionaire in Bloomberg.
A right wing billionaire should not be more palatable here than a chance at a very mild social democracy in a country virtually screaming for it.
My first statement was not about giving workers a say or part ownership in companies they work for. It's a statement about how Bernie feels about the DNC (who he currently is working for/get the nomination)
He rails on about how corrupt they are, how he's against them, yet he draws the paycheck from them (metaphorically).
So I'm saying if you exhibited that behavior with your boss/company, you would be out the door.
And as "right wing" as you want to claim Bloomberg is, he delivered more on guns and the environment than Bernie has in the last 35 years in Washington. He supports 15 dollar minimum wage, raising taxes on the wealthy and corporations, pro-choice... So I would say more a left leaning moderate.
I mean somehow, a person that is on par with Obama, has in 4 years become "right wing".
And the vast majority is not screaming for Democratic Socialism. I would say most of the country and majority of the Dem party is somewhere between Biden/Pete and Warren. Those are substantial changes, but not an everything for free, billionaires shouldn't exist system.
I think people tend to forget that we are still America. And I would say 95% of Americans don't want to be full on Europe/Scandinavia. Can we take some examples from them and create a more fair and equitable society? Yes, i believe we can. But we are still unique. Still a place of hope and independence. A place where a great idea, or working a bit harder or smarter than the next guy or gal can take you where you want to go.
So my "seething" at Bernie comes more from the fact that instead of actually joining the Democratic party, working with the DNC, raising money for them, helping to elect downticket Dems. He just uses the name. Spouts rhetoric every day dividing the liberal voters, fueling animosity among young people who in many cases clearly have no idea how or why our system of government was set up the way it was. And then he has the gall to stand up on stage and say, "no matter what, we have to be united against Trump."
He's dividing the party to win the nomination, but then expects to receive the support of all the people's he's demonized along the way.
If you can't see that as the pure bullshit that it is, then you are not being objective.
I don't like disingenuous people. I certainly don't like disingenuous, manipulative, martyrs that are somehow championed as the one pure, true, honest, ethical candidate. It's infuriating.
