Peter Suderman probably has no more understanding of macro economics, public debt, and the money system than I or the average “educated” adult. But in the way he discusses public spending, deficits, and debt, it is clear he is only regretting some of the consequences of Republican ignorance and hypocracy. The way he frames his argument makes it likely that he is worried more about threats to the privileges of irresponsibly owned private concentrated wealth than he cares about democracy or the dignity of struggling Americans.
But the drive for a Green New Deal, a massive overhaul of our energy and transportation infrastructures associated with a transformation of our healthcare and education systems is driven by human need as well as by national security and world peace.
The primary opening for socialism is not a result of Republican hypocracy. It’s a result of their policies which (with Democratic complicity) since the 70s have successfully commandeered wealth from ordinary Americans into the hands of a rapacious idiot (0.1%) elite which irresponsibly refuses to invest “their” treasure in productive industry.
What’s motivating socialism is human need in the face of a failing system.
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