“What’s funny about that is they assume my ambition is positional. They assume my ambition is a title or a seat. My ambition is way bigger than that. My ambition is to change this country. Presidents come and go, elected officials come and go, single payer healthcare is forever.”
First of, thanks for the opportunity of a proper conversation. Second, a quick rant:
Many countries here in South America lived through some form of socialism. So, for us Peruvians, we live what I am warning through the decade of the 80s.
With many public services collapsed, and a severe hyperinflation.
The presidents of that time, first Fernando Belaúnde Terry (who focused on housing, but not on security which lead to the formation of Sendero Luminoso) and the Alan Garcia ( whose strategy was similar to what AOC is doing right now, while enacting most socialist programs like price control, and healthcare (in reality, an oversaturation of the dangerously lackluster service (further context: it was common to die from diarrhea here))), had a socialist government which worsened the situation until the next government of Alberto Fujimori.
…with an often overlooked caveat that the US imperial empire, through the CIA, has staged coups, assassinations, embargos, sanctions, color revolutions, political meddling, contra scandals, and outright genocide during that time. The expressed purpose of all of that was to cause as much human suffering as possible, in order to get people to hate their government.
Peru has never been a Socialist state, although I will give it to you that there was a significant socialist movement during that time.
So, just to be clear, … there was never a Socialist society during that time, correct? You only had a leftish government, surrounding by US meddling, literal genocide, and death squads of Communists and supporters. Socialism doesn’t mean anti-market and doesn’t mean “government does stuff”.