Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24660155-20190106073309/@comment-31417419-20190126000119

First of all: 'marxism' has never actually been used as a governing system. You can't confuse an ideology with a governing system. The same goes for communism, because communism is realistically impossible. There are only two types of socialism that have ever been practiced: Authoritarian Socialism, such as that of China and Russia, and soft Socialism, which is the incorporation of socialist elements into democratic systems.

Now it's my turn to call out the absolute stupidity that has been spouted in this thread.

@Knight of Malta, you insinuated that mass immigration from 'third world countries' lowers IQ levels. Ignoring the fact that IQ in itself is highly subjective due to existing testing systems, there is no definitive proof for that.

@EnderAlan04, I think you have to think about what you're saying here. 'Yang is too far-left for the American people' doesn't make sense considering that objectively there are multiple actual congressmen out there that are a harder left than him - Sanders, anyone?

Also, 'Scandinavian countries don't have their own military' - uh, no. Finland, Norway and Sweden are actually among the best-equipped nations militarily in the world.

Third, you insinuate multiple times, 'Socialism doesn't work' and thus confuse a completely differing ideology, Democratic Socialism, with the existing two subgroups. That's a strawman. Democratic Socialism is a newer system which incorporates existing Liberal ideology and aspects of Socialism into a system of governmental cooperation with the free market as well as a government held far more accountable by its constituents.

The 'Socialism' you refer to, Authoritarian Socialism, is more or less a completely different thing. While DS (Democratic Socialism) is left-wing, AS (Authoritarian socialism) is far-left and incorporates mutliple authoritarian ideals into them. That includes Nationalism, State Subservience, as well as others that I won't get into right here. The fact is, Democratic Socialism is more or less just the evolution of existing Liberal ideology, which makes it more or less pretty mild on the scale of right to left. Confusing both together ignores that even political governing systems can sound similar but be vastly different.