Its light-hearted banter time:
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Sidenote: Ive lived and worked in several countries, including the US And European, my personal experience makes it a no contest non-issue, the US is the slave labor of industrialized countries. What I want is to see a propaganda campaign for Malasian sweat shop slave labor as effective as the one in the US, so that people working 14 hours a day 7 days a week can debate how their conditions are much better than people in those other countries (Up till one of them actually goes and works in another country, fall to his knees and weeps realizing how much he has been rapped his whole life, of course if he goes back no one will take his experience seriously "he look, sure were paid 10 cents an hour, but the president is paid a quadrillion so that puts OUR average wage much higher than those socialistic countries, plus they pay taxes to get the health care that we dont have access to, but we pay no taxes, so were better off, instead of taxes we pay for private insurance for the whole time we are not sick, aint that great or what?). Yes I want to go on a site where sweat shop workers argue about how great they have it.
But to get back to the OP, look at banana republics, banana corporations want to exploit people and resources, and when people dont want to be exploited and want to control the resource so they can benefit, the US sends General Butler and his marine corps to slap some sense into the locals and put a United Fruit approved dictator. In the old days they didnt need a reason, they just did it, wave that flag and kill the natives boy, and wave that flag some more son, but later on, it was better PR to invent a reason.
Also Left-Right is a crappy dichotomy. Social-Democracies are probably more democratic (and less militaristic too) than the US, but then they say ~hah but they're lefty and that means North Korea!~ (which is anti-democratic militarist hierarchy)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfrQalpmdqk
Also, if you read War is a Racket, you will notice that in hindsight Butler didnt fight and risk is blood for "The Nation" but for the petty interest of those in positions of influence.
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I think that social democracies are better in some respects, but they still have a long way to go, since they have also inherited the monetary system's conflicts of interest which makes them vulnerable to corruption/concentration of power/etc, along with relics of closed opaque hierarchic institutions.
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