The whole world is crazy.

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Staying off the internet helps. Lol!

But yeah. Am older than you and I never seen a political scene anything like what we have now. Not just polarization, but a total lack of common currency on what is truth.

Truth is in short supply in mainstream media. Even GB news proverbially waters down everything.

But I thought capitalism was supposed to be a system where individuals can have their own successes. If the system is set up so that the government can take big pieces out of the pie, and take their chunks, wouldn't that be a more socialist system, compared to capitalist? Therefore is the problem more socialist and that's the problem, when it needs to be more capitalist, which means the government has less ability to take as much of a cut?

^^ In the textbooks, the butcher, the baker, and the candlestick maker are all independent businessmen trading on a level field, and competing against others in their trade. In reality, before long, one competitor gets ahead through chance, and this sets up a positive feedback, driving out the competition.
This has created such extreme wealth that the rich now control governments. Popular programs that people vote for don't get passed, and much of the tax money winds up going to the rich one way or another, with a cut for "campaign expenses" to the politicians.

Socialism and crony capitalism aren't the same thing. Socialism and social democracy also aren't the same thing. It's really impossible to have a logical discussion on anything when definitions are so vague and variable.

As for the real issue, even the most minimalist capitalism will have some rules and regulations defining the boundaries. The problem is it is difficult for a government captured by big monopoly capital to come up with rules and regulations that are fair. I also think that applying rules and regulations to businesses the same way you would apply them to individuals is grossly unfair, but that is what this country tends to do.

I'm expecting that government leaders are going to become figureheads whose sole role is to tell us via. the media whatever it is the big corporations and multi-millionaires have decided is best for the continuation of business and the making of profits.

Or maybe we're there already?

One of the problems with politics nowadays is that a lot of people in society are okay with hypocrisy and I think that's the main route of the problems. A lot of people throw around words like racist, sexist, etc, but no one throws around the word hypocritical near as much. Sure racism and sexism are bad, but why is hypocrisy still acceptable...

Care to offer any examples?

It's hard to know where to start there is so many. For example, when Trump encites an insurrection, everything thinks of it as bad but when Nancy Pelosi threatens one to influence a court trial verdict, all of a sudden it's good...

Here is a hypocrisy or double standard I made a thread about recently:

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Or another example off the top of my head is I was reading about how Will Smith's wife cheated with a younger man, and people cheared her on with this 'you go girl' attitude, but if happened the other way around and Will did it with a younger woman, people would be cursing him like there was no tomorrow, etc.

Or how when Gina Carano makes an analogy about nazism, everyone burns her for it, yet Pedro Pescali has done it, and people are okay with it. It's okay to make nazi analogies for one political party, but not the other, etc.

These are just off the top of my head, but there is a lot of hypocrisy floating around, but I am still surprised that it's still considered cool, compared to other things in today's day and age.