No, I'm not a Marxist or a socialist.
I'm a Democrat and a capitalist. It is not socialism that I want. It is capitalism with a conscience.
Capitalism works well as an economic system, unless you are those unlucky enough to fall between the cracks and you don't have money or a job. If you are poor or disadvantaged, capitalism can be cruel.
If you want to see what capitalism is without a conscience, check out Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" as well as the works of other journalists and writers at the beginning of the 20th Century. We've come a long way from those days. Let's not fall back into them again.
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