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Socialist parties have been successful, I'll admit, to a degree. But they tend to adopt inefficient economic policies such as heavy taxation and large amounts of welfare handouts. Here in Australia where even conservative politicians have socialist economic leanings, you can gain a thousand dollars a year in salary through promotion and lose most of it through taxes. Maintaining a welfare state drags the economy down and increases the dependence of recipients on further benefits, while doing little to alleviate their actual problems.
The only reason modern-day greens and socialists are able to believe in green-ness and socialism is because of the past successes of capitalism, which has granted them the affluent and comfortable living conditions that free their time to think about socialist politics. I actually disagree with you that people with a good living standard vote right-wing. I get the impression that the middle class tends to be liberal precisely because they are in the middle. The rich don't want to live in a welfare state because they will be paying the most taxes. The poor don't want to get involved with radical politics because they spend forty hours a week working and have no time for it.
Also, university students tend to be very liberal and enamored of socialist ideas, but many of them grow out of it once they realize that you can't have a capitalist lifestyle with the house, the car, the job, the high-quality education, etc., on a pure green economy.
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Anyway, I personally think the University and the Morganites would dominate Alpha Centauri, and possibly the Hive as well, provided the latter didn't make the mistakes that totalitarianisms on Earth made. But does anyone else find that the Gaians are "favored" by the game's makers? I've seen them land between the Hive and the Spartans and come out with half of Planet under their control and making more money than everyone else put together.
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