Perhaps there should also be an intelligence and knowledge test before being allowed to run for office. I was also 'politically active' at one time (in Canada) and at a rally for our candidate I asked him if he had ever read the Canadian Constitution. (I have and it is not very long). He answered "No but I surely will now that you have brought it up".
Yes, humorous I know. And yet some would expect the electorate to be more intelligent and knowledgeable than the people we vote for. Funny thing is: we often are
Capitalism requires a highly educated and informed populace with a strong work ethic and fierce streak of independence to prosper. Lazy, inept, self-victimized, constantly aggrieved whiners who need to be coddled and kept will always vote for socialism in some form.
Pure capitalism is just as impossible as pure communism when talking on the scale of countries. Someone might also say that communism requires a highly educated and informed populace with strong work ethic that has a strong desire to help their community. Greedy, corrupt, self-serving, psychopaths who only give a sh*t about themselves will always vote for capitalism in some form. See how that can get turned around? Different people have different life philosophies, neither is better than the other and neither could not survive without the other. There are people who abuse and steal from social programs in the name of socialism/communism and there are just as many assholes who will sell you snake oil on the corner that will end up killing you just so he could make a quick buck in the name of capitalism.
All people aren't created equal, so any system that wants everyone to be equal or wants everyman for himself is going to have an uneven outcome. We are all product of our environment and our genes. One of which, we have no control over. Environment and genes. Determinants of behavior. - PubMed - NCBI Recent behavioral genetic research has demonstrated that genetic influence on individual differences in behavioral development is usually significant and often substantial and, paradoxically, also supports the important role of the environment. This article reviews research on the heritability of intellectual factors, personality factors, and psychopathology. It discusses the importance of investigating within-family environmental differences in order to understand the environmental origins of individual differences in development. Any political system that that assumes everyone is equal and or everyone is in complete control of who they can be is in for a rude awakening.
NO! What I do see is how willing you are to distort and twist a false narrative in order to bash the very system you prosper from. Socialism/ communism is and will always be a killer of the human spirit and innovation. There has never been a system that has lifted humanity up and created more wealth than Capitalism. To quote Warren Buffett " Equal opportunity does not guarantee equal outcomes " The Capitalistic system and political system of the USA guarantees equal "opportunity "
