Bernie! Bernie! Bernie! We love you Bernie! Do we really love socialism though?
The organizing principles are clearly different between socialism and capitalism. Socialism focuses on advancing equity and social justice. Capitalism focuses on advancing economic activity and solving specific social problems. Both systems can also focus on military spending or systems; socialism is seen as being adversarial to military spending by making claims on the federal budget but also has clear defense policies and postures.
So, simple socialism isn't that different than the democratic party that we have now. The primary difference is the willingness to engage is judicial and legislative activism to redistribute wealth or nationalize industries.
The British school systems are socialist by including a spending equity plan between counties compared to the U.S. system that largely relies on the county tax base with only modest state and federal spending.
National health is in Britain, Canada, Australia, and most E.U. countries. So, socialism is not at all strange and we have some direct models to compare to.
Instead, once you make these choices it will be hard to go back. Some people do take advantage of the apparently free system of medical care so costs are higher. But it is generally considered worthwhile to increase the health of everyone.
The hidden problems are what we already know, race or coercive practices to force votes for unions or other blocks that bring down both corporate incomes and performance.
These practices are already here. So, this could also be another red herring.
Stay tuned for more disinterested opinion.
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