i have my own ideas as well but reading older, and a wide variety of, ideas is not bad. especially if there's examples of how it works/ends up irl... rather fond of kropotkin's conquest of bread n the example of the watchmaker's commune that traded what they made for their goods/supplies.
i like more perfect union, but more of the left needs to learn finance n how to finesse tax code, imo
yes, unions famously got infiltrated by the mob who then cried about communists n socialists within the unions n rooted them out n then embezzled money.
have a great book somewhere abt how reagan n his mafia ties n how he sold out sag or fag... whatever the acronym is. posted it in the book thread like half a yr ago...
My attention span is too short for serious reading. And these days I am automatically skeptical of anything written by someone with a higher education.
Instead, I prefer exchanging ideas with other people.
25 years ago my views on abortion were strictly right-wing. But after I talked to enough women, I moved towards the center. Now I am both left and right on the issue.
While I believe after a certain point that abortion should be illegal, it isn't that simple.
We have to ask why women get abortions. Many do because they are poor and don't think they have the resources to raise a child.
People get more social security benefits by working a 9-5 job but why can't a mother get more social security benefits by raising a child? Isn't that work.
If abortion is so bad, why are Republicans against birth control? I would rather a woman be on birth control than get an abortion.
And I would rather pregnancy tests are accessible, so a woman has access to them so if they need to make that choice, make it sooner than later.
In fact pay to have a woman driven to a clinic or priority mail whatever she needs.
I never looked into it but apparently in some states women can't get a hysterectomy unless they already had kids. I would rather a woman get her tubes tied instead of getting an abortion.
My point is, I learn by talking to people, not parroting political talking points.
