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MalabarJag · 08-13-2018, 02:29 PM

(08-13-2018, 02:03 PM)mikesez Wrote: Getting special privileges to elected officials has nothing to do with socialism.
California is not any more of a socialist place than the rest of the US.
It is corrupt and mismanaged, though.

If you're using the original definition of socialism as government running business, then California is no more a socialist place. But if you're using the Bernie Sanders AO-C definition of socialism as being a welfare state ala Norway (or Venezuela which was used as a shining example before until they started denying it) then California is very much a Sanders-style socialist state, with high taxes being redistributed to the poor, including millions of people illegally in the US.

And yes, corruption is more prominent with socialism, partly because the ruling class has a lot more of other people's money to funnel to themselves and their cronies.

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