Timeline for Why is it that Bernie Sanders is always called a "socialist"?
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| Feb 27, 2019 at 8:37 | comment | added | Lukali | @Dunk I like the car metaphor. Albeit Id say if we were to try to use it to describe the situation in US, it would be like a parent who sells their teenage child a car and as long as they pay for it every month they get to do whatever they want with it, yet eventually the child comes back and starts arguing about the payment amount, why he is responsible to pay for repairs and why does he need to take care of safety of other road users. | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 22:56 | comment | added | Dunk | "Most of industry remains under private ownership, albeit heavily regulated." That statement is why many Americans laugh when Europeans claim they aren't socialist. Just because the government "lets" people own companies, the government is still essentially dictating how the companies operate through the heavy regulation. There's not a lot of difference between that and the government outright controlling the companies. It's like a parent who "gives" their teenage child a car but reserves the right to take the car away from them at any time. IOW, the child doesn't really own the car. | |
| Feb 25, 2019 at 1:45 | history | answered | Walter Mitty | CC BY-SA 4.0 |