What is evil? Are people evil?
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Cause for optimism: there is a good amount of evidence to suggest that people are not evil. People act in accordance with their environment, and are generally self interested. Meanwhile, the ways we organize are corruptable. Specifically, capitalism is amoral and does not maintain itself; boundaries must be established that keep it healthy. Socialism is moral in concept, but is also corruptable.
Furthermore, capitalism is not more inherently democratic than socialism is. Nor is socialism communist. So called capitalist and socialist ideals both have their place in a democracy and do not need to eradicate the other.
The dichotomous bipartisan system is a duopoly that paints everything in black and white and makes us all dumber for it. But thats a topic in and of itself.
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The extremes of the political parties in America demonize people, ideas, and terms they find threatening early and often. Hilary Clinton, AOC, not Bernie, George Soros, the Koch brothers, welfare, the concept of systematic racism, and, perhaps most of all, the term socialism. It seems impossible to have a rational discussion about socialism in America. It's obvious that capitalism needs regulation and taxation but even that is difficult to discuss with much of the population, including good, moral, decidedly not evil people. Breaking out of the two party system would surely help, if such a thing were possible.
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Talking about the parties directly may be a dead end tbh. There is so much mental baggage, bias and fatigue associated with the parties, focusing on issues and ideas seems the right strategy and making a conscious effort to keep the parties as a secondary or tertiary data point.