Here’s A Tipping Point The Left Wants You To Ignore

[Geee]

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In an interview this week, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez complained that the Democratic Party wasn’t sufficiently leftist because it hasn’t embraced her style of socialism. “There are a lot of true believers that we can ‘capitalism’ our way out of poverty,” she complained.  

We doubt there are very many such believers remaining in the Democratic Party, given that 70% of those who identify as Democrats now have a positive view of socialism.

To the extent that there are any free market capitalists left in the Democratic Party, it’s possible that they are true believers because they’ve seen the data, which make it abundantly clear that capitalism has been the greatest anti-poverty program ever conceived by mankind. 

The Brookings Institution, a centrist think tank in Washington, D.C., found that, “for the first time since agriculture-based civilization began 10,000 years ago, the majority of humankind is no longer poor or vulnerable to falling into poverty.” 

The report – which came out more than a year ago – showed that more than 50% of the world’s population lived in households with enough discretionary income to be considered middle class or rich. 

 

[Valin]

@Geee

Been talking about this for years now! Thing is Bad News Sells.

Which story are you more likely to see?

Fire Destroys Home Family Of 5 Left Destitute.

Or Yesterday No Houses Burned Down.

 

Thing is its Everyone. How many times have we read people on our side say "Its The End Of the Republic!" "America Is Done!"? When Bill Clinton was elected President...When Barack Obama Won is was an hourly thing for 8 years. I recall (and bought) books by serious people talking about What To Do When The Soviets Invade.

You can go to Democracy Now....MSNBC...Democratic Underground and see the same thing for the last 3+ years. Heck you can see it in The Impeachment Trial,  and not by the base but  Nancy Pelosi...Adam Schiff...Jerry Nadler.

 

Heck you can go back to Augustine's The City Of God...you can find it there. Many 1st century Christians KNEW the world was coming to an end.

Bad News. We're like a fat kid in a candy store with a twenty dollar bill.

/rant #397,186