Socialism is an Obsolete Political Philosophy Taking Over the Democrat Party

 A new generation is making the mistake of believing that socialism works better than free enterprise for a modern nation state. The gross concentration of wealth is a fact that can be corrected with democracy; socialism isn’t at all necessary or useful. Instead it is an obsolete, 19th century approach to rectifying problems of industrial era Darwinian capitalism’s extremes of England. Socialism is taking over the Democrat Party basically because the party leadership hasn't good ideas.

New York and Seattle elected socialist mayors (Mamdani and Wilson) in effect attempting to roll back the tide of the end of the Cold war with the defunct Soviet Union that was a movement for free enterprise in the United States and across the Soviet Union. Soviets recognized their ineffective delivery of goods and services to the public in that great 20^th century experiment at providing fairness and social equality to the masses. I believe youth don't know history well or learn from its mistakes. A friend said that youth just want to fix what feels 'broken'.

Repeating the same wrong paths may be a traditional failure, yet with Youtube existing to popularize mass education it should be more avoidable now then before. Some say socialism doesn't mean what it used to; that all socialists want today is free bus service and a few items they desire; a living wage, health care, housing. Mayor Mamdani said he wouldn't mind government running grocery stores- I believe the latter would create Soviet style groceries radically under-stocked with a few limp vegetables and a line up for ten day old bread. Politicians don't understand the micro-dynamics of operations of such businesses nor global product acquisition and economics of putting stuff on shelves (i.e. 100 kinds of energy drinks or one, 20 varieties and flavors of yogurt or two, canned ham in ten flavors or one; from Denmark or Chinese owned pig farms in the Midwest etc)..

Even Communist China following the opening President Nixon and Sect. Of State Kissinger eventually discovered that Chinese districts that were given the right to run their own affairs radically outperformed comparable socialist, centrally run economic districts. China opted to move toward increasing free enterprise because it is simply far more productive. https://www.coursera.org/learn/econtransform1

It is a mistake to fail to learn from history and reinforce policy that are proven failures like socialism. Democracy continues to be the best political system obviously, and free enterprise is far and away the most economically productive, yet Democracy only works if people have intelligence enough to use it to deliver what the masses of voters want-within the system. There are numerous challenges to the economy, environment and well being of the nation and it’s people that can be rectified with intelligent legislation rather easily. Advocating a different system simply because politicians have no competent ideas to advance through democracy is unfortunate.

Frank Zappa pointed out that elections are the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex. One might believe that today about Germany and England in light of their support for the Ukraine war- a war that could and should be settled peacefully with Russia recovering its land historically on the East bank of the Dnepro River. The nation should have secure borders and only legal residents, citizens and tourists along with workers with appropriate visas living here; then wages normal rise. Supply and demand counts in wages as well as prices. So it is rather disingenuous for socialist mayors of Seattle and New York to support illegal immigration and better wages for legal workers simultaneously because they are counter-cyclical wage factors.

Americans tend to be ignorant of political philosophy. Because the global conversation for the 20th century was about capitalism vs socialism or communism, many Americans continue to view the world in those lenses. Corporatism, plutocracy, corporatocracy and the reality of globalization and digital currencies over borders are not things the average political philosophy of Americans enter. Any sort of political change or policy that shifts financial advantage from a tiny minority of the rich to the masses through democratic means is immediately labeled socialism even though it is not. The means of production need be privately held and operated for effectiveness. Public policy about what tax levels to set and what to do with the money is a part of the right of democracy the wealthy hate.

Socialism is a loser’s political choice and an effective misdirection of public focus. Creating public, government operated clinics for the poor and letting the middle class and rich by their own health insurance was a better way than Nixon/Romney/Obama care to provide effect health for all Americans. Food stamps are great for the hungry, yet would obviously be stupid for the middle class and rich. Health care is a similar necessary for almost everyone service. In the case of health care because the skill of physicians is critical, in addition to pharmaceuticals and medical equipment and technical staff, it is practical to create clinics with free health care for those that can’t afford it and are legally in the nation. It would be a terrible thing if government bureaucrats were the ones running the pharmaceutical industry I would think; they might invest billions in developing new ‘salt tricks’.

Capital increase faster than wages, and like the acceleration of space-time may increase at a scalar pace if uncorrected. Adequate taxation to stop gross social stratification and gross lass asymmetry is necessary function of a democracy that would remain one rather than follow a version of Aristotle or Toynbee's historical cycles to a bad end. The Democrat Party has been notably ineffective or unable to increase taxes on the rich, to pay off public debt or to provide practical legislation to employ those unemployed longest with tax incentives, make patents affordable for everyone (as well as copyright), realistically solve the homeless problem with innovative physical approaches rather than government spending directly to buy housing rentals with increased public debt.

The nation will face greater challenges ahead from worker displacement by AI and robots. Large stores even now could replace most workers with wheeled robots and good systems analysis. Robots work 24 hours a day seven days a week and are more reliable than human workers. That is a real challenge Democrats cannot address at all with socialism. AI will make even lawyers too costly for many citizens. I would expect that soon socialist mayors themselves may buy AI packed robots to serve as public defenders for the poor in courtrooms one the tech and software exceed that of average law school graduates. Lawyers, unlike chess grandmasters that lose to AI or VR chess engines every time, cannot exist in a separate league of their own free of competition from AI attorney engines.

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Ukraine War Stimulus for Evolving War Robots and Dispersion Vectors

A war with tens or hundreds of thousand of robots versus humans and eventually against other robots will help train a new generation of combat robots how best to evaluate and kill human targets; a brave new world for programmers seeking fool-proof ways to deliver death to political opponents that breathe oxygen. Robots with AI are likely to rationalize 'Death to mouth-breathers!' Field training robots is a practical step, necessary step if they are to evolve to be effective killers of humans. The dispersion of military technology to non-belligerent nations seems like a parallel course to increase market sales in the civilian sector creating continuous increase of profits through expansion into secondary markets.

It is probable that a swift escalation in robot technology will follow a continuing war without a stoppage due to peace. Airborne drones will rise to deliver camouflage machine gun power in semi-autonomous drones that can reconnect with airlifting drones for redeployment  to more optimal locations. A similar phenomena will arise if it does not already exist with airborne placement of drones  with automatic grenade launchers and flame throwers.. Hundreds of forms of death flowers will bloom followed I would think by a host of anti-drone and anti-robot vectors.  to fight without human combatants present initially. Then, the robot armies will seek and destroy human combatants farther from the front lines where they are ensconced in 'safer' positions.

That may be the beginning of the end of wars fought among humans with human political choices being the primary determinants of conflict. Instead the evolution of robots may enable the end of ostensible democratic leadership to war and give power over to rare elites or individuals representing vast concentrated wealth able to afford and command millions of robot warriors purposed to eliminate opposition political elements taking human form. Hence robots represent the end of democracy and rise of oligarchic plutonomy for global conquest.

Plainly soldiers will want more ai directed autonomous flying sticky mines to be able to attack robotic dogs in the field attacking them- bullets and grenades tossed from human arms might not be too effective. It isn't known if small electro-magnetic pulse grenades will be effective against robots. New forms of thermite (temperature between 4500-and 5400F Super Claymore mines with different shaped sticky packages may be effective upon opfor ground robots. Some flying vehicles might be taken down with white phosphorus flying air mines in close combat under the forest canopy situations. Adaptations to a plethora of new weapons seems ready to rapidly accelerate technologies of infantry war that of course will eventually proliferate to the rest of the world outside the present theater of combat; including of course, terrorists.

In order to capture opposition force (opfor) technology and software in various kind of robot dogs and other immobilized opfor machines the development of lightweight Faraday cages thrown by soldiers like a weighted fishnets or dropped from quite stealth drones flying above to cut off capture target robot dogs, for example will become part of an anti-drone squads battlefield toolkit. It is essential to isolate captured drone quickly so remote operators cannot order a drone to erase its software useful for reverse engineering.

Obviously there will appear mobile, stealthy flying AI 'Generals' to command battlefield drones without the presence of a human operator. The Brigadiers will be small yet with the best chips and software available and be encased in an EMP hardened shell able to avoid detection or destruction readily. If dumb battlefield drones are disabled with emp attacks the Brigadiers will download new programming to them.

With so many drone attackers in combat the U.S. Army has bought a high power microwave system that broadcast rather like an EMP, high power microwaves to take down opfor drones en mass. Obviously that technology can be adapted to kill humans. It can also be adapted to be transported by drones along with a partner carrying a power pack for the device, that will have directed evolution to more application including taking out ground combat drones. Networks of mobile microwave emission detectors will also be fielded for triangulating opfor anti-drone microwave bursts in the spiral of escalating technology of robotic war. Microwave destruction of drones with  locations known to operators provide instant precise location where the Micro-wave emitter is enabling follow up counter attacks to the center of the drone destruction pattern with JDAMS, mortar and conventional artillery rounds.

When the technology proliferates and AI brigadiers become common it is possible that rogue applications of the encrypted control units may be found and applied in the general anomic breakdown of social order because of the dispersion of social control and security.