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Capitalism is where the people do most of the work and the wealthy oligarchs/plutocrats get most of the benefit.

Communism is where the people do most of the work and the government/cleptocrats get most of the benefit.

Socialism is where the people do most of the work and the people get most of the benefit.

Libertarianism is FAR more closely aligned with socialism than it is with fascism. The fascists have just coopted libertarianism, Prosperity Libertarianism, to say, "I've got mine, fuck you."

I want the smallest government possible to effectively run the country. I want the government to leave me the fuck alone and not tell me who I can love, fuck, or marry, how I can dress, what I can and can't do with my body, what I can eat or drink or smoke. I want a government that works FOR the people not against them. I don't want the government and the police to be the enforcement arm for corporations and the wealthy. I don't want corporations writing laws to benefit them at the expense of the people. I don't want the government propping up corporations. If they fail, they fail and another will rise to take their place. If it's a better it will succeed and survive. If not it will fail and be replaced again. I want unions everywhere. They protect workers and increase productivity.

I'm also smart enough that the only solution to a social problem is a social solution. The US government has spent more than $1.5 trillion dollars since 1976 fighting the "war on drugs" and drugs won. All the war on drugs did was make a bunch of rich people richer.