Reply #22: I haven't seen the film yet... [View All]

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and I'm confident that Moore did a good job. The problem that I see on DU is that some people have become so disenchanted with what is perceived to be standard capitalism that many conclude that socialism is the only viable alternative. If Moore leads people down that same garden path then one might conclude that he is at least anti-capitalism. What I, and perhaps a few others, have tried to do is make the fine distinction between big business-government collusion and a well-regulated capitalism where government only answers to the People. The fact that Moore stresses true democracy as a solution to the problem is encouraging.

Also people need to realize that we already have a degree of Socialism in the form of public education, public services, medicare, social security, and the military, and that in most cases it works very well. We need much more spending for education and much less for the military.