Opinion: The US is moving towards a national-socialist economy. [View all]
National-Socialism is an economy that is geared to benefit the abstract "people" as a whole, the nation, while Socialism is geared to benefit the people as individuals.
In the 3rd Reich, workers and farmers were exploited and underpaid, with the reasoning that it's better for the country this way. Union-leaders were executed and farmers received orders on what to grow from a government-agency, with the reasoning that it's better for the country this way.
Now, the 3rd Reich wasn't capitalist. Rich people were very much trapped in the system as everybody else. My point is the REASONING given.
And the US? Unions are being busted, labor-rights are declining, wages are stagnating, pensions are in danger... But it's for the good of the country!
When the Trump-administration says that it's just a short-term pain and that the economy will be better in the future, about whom are they talking?
Can the Trump-administration point to specific parts of society and point out who will be better off and how and why?
Or is it a vague, wishy-washy "everyone"?
When the Trump-administration says that its better for the nation, who is that? Is it actually the people? Or is it a vague abstract justification for something else?
The lack of specifics from the government is the most telling detail here, that it's not actually about living real-world people.
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