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Originally Posted by iruinedyourday
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I don't understand why cultural relativism is even part of this conversation.
We're talking about shifting the # of dollars that we spend on corperations to spend it on people instead.
We're not talking about everyone melting into some weird new cultural identity.
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Far-left liberalism, socialism, and liberal-fascist systems only work when your culture is advanced enough to support them. For example, culture is one of the predominant reasons a European-style welfare state did not work in Greece, and why it is wavering in Spain and Italy.
The integrity of these systems is threatened by cultural relativism, which leads to multiculturalism, which leads to more open immigration, and a slow rate of integration, which leads to your country being filled with people whose beliefs and values aren't generally compatible with a socialist state. It remains to be seen whether immigrants in Europe can be integrated enough to preserve the integrity of their system.
It's a fairly valid criticism of the shift toward socialism. In many ways, having a successful socialist system and having cultural relativist policies are mutually exclusive, and that's a problem with Bernie's platform.