(06-21-2026, 06:37 PM)worldstarcountry Wrote: The plan wasnt to park ten thousand homeless on the land and give them free drugs and immunity from harassing local businesses.
That isn't socialism.
Socialism's core belief is that wealth and resources should be shared equitably among all citizens to prioritize the welfare of society
over individual profit. In this system, key industries, natural resources, and major services are owned, regulated and provided by the public (in other words the state), rather than by private individuals.
Quote:The plan is to train specialists and have the private citizen develop the land. It is the system the country was built with.
Historically, only some private citizens owned their own land. People settled where the best land for farming was. (Some private citizens owned other private citizens, so lets not pine for the "good old days".)
Then more people settled and neighbors became townspeople as more, and then more, yadda, yadda, yadda...
Soon, people had to settle in less optimal land, and the best locations for farming got paved over.
But some people, seeing how there were
always more people, bought up as much land as they could, leasing some, but letting other property go to waste, because there was too much for them to farm, and it was easier just to collect rents without having to do any work. They often used their income to buy more land, disallowing others from buying the land, and using the land as primary income. Hence, landlords!
Landlords had plenty of time on their hands, not having to work, and so they soon became the administrators and politicians. Very few freehold or renters could afford to stop working, and so very few of them went into politics.
And of course, politicians make rules to their advantage, not to the advantage of the worker drones.
This is the basis of Capitalism, where money has more value than anything else. Even human lives are evaluated in monetary terms.
The Republican Party are politicians, and they love capitalism. Anything other than totally unrestricted pure money-making (only by the wealthy, of course), is socialism, or communism, or some other evil 'ism'.