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Always like to get some feedback from the Freepers. And I even tried to get the entire article readily available... no need go through all the pain and effort of clicking to go to American Thinker... But YOUR website won't allow it. Don't bitch at me... at least about this ;-)
1 posted on 06/05/2019 9:43:21 AM PDT by John Conlin
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“They are behind it 100%.”

1.) It’s Anti-Trump
2.) They never got the same history lessons we did


2 posted on 06/05/2019 9:45:30 AM PDT by SMARTY ("Nobility is defined by the demands it makes on us - by obligations, not by rights".)
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http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3751617/posts


3 posted on 06/05/2019 9:46:04 AM PDT by ButThreeLeftsDo (MAGA!!!)
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The Education Establishment has been teaching people since the 1960’s that truth is relative and we each construct our own.

I doubt we’ll be able to restore any concept of reality.


4 posted on 06/05/2019 9:49:49 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog (Patrick Henry would have been an anti-vaxxer.)
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If the young aren’t taught the different type of government and only hear how good socialism is, then they will fall in line like good little socialists.


5 posted on 06/05/2019 9:50:42 AM PDT by BuffaloJack (Chivalry is not dead. It is a warriors code and only practiced by warriors.)
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Very interesting article and summed up quite well. Individual freedom and limited government allows a nation to prosper while the exact opposite which is socialism, has been tried countless times, does not. Liberalism or Progressivism is truly a doctrine of insanity where you do the same thing over and over again and yet expect different results.


7 posted on 06/05/2019 9:52:33 AM PDT by SubVet72
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Who owns your content?


8 posted on 06/05/2019 9:52:56 AM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion or satire. Or both.)
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Let’s say you want a palace and limousines.

In a truly free and capitalist country, you come up with a good idea and then work your behind off.

But, what if you are stupid and lazy, but still want that palace and limousines?

You have to go with an idea that is already out there.

Like socialism.

And this idea has to get lots of people to do your dirty work. People have to think that they’ll get a palace, too.

Like socialism.

As long as there are greedy and stupid people, socialism/communism is going to be brought up by the sneaky, lazy people.

Look at our culture.

What are the Democrats producing?

Greedy, stupid people.

So the con goes on.


10 posted on 06/05/2019 9:57:11 AM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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You make some good points in the article but I had no idea where you were going with until I was half-way through.


12 posted on 06/05/2019 9:57:54 AM PDT by kaboom
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14 posted on 06/05/2019 9:59:56 AM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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We won the economic side of the cold war... no contest there.

... and we thought it was over... so we stopped fighting it.

Little did we know that wars such as this simply do not end.

While we were dominant economically and militarily, the enemy has remained dominant in the realm of propaganda and social engineering for centuries, LONG before our nation was ever born.

They patiently let this sleeping giant go back to sleep while they slowly and meticulously infiltrated our schools, media, and government systems in order to re-define what it means to be free.

One may ask what their first target was?

Simple... our morality... our TRUST in God.
For if you reject the God from which our freedoms come,
you reject those freedoms along with Him.

Even our founding fathers knew this and warned us against it.

“An immoral society is incapable of self governance”

That is the dirty little secret nobody wants to hear, and why our opinions dont matter.

Eventually this nation WILL fall unless we turn back to Him.


17 posted on 06/05/2019 10:05:32 AM PDT by Safrguns
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There are a lot of people who want socialism which ultimately becomes Marxism.

They apparently long for a Saddam Hussein who was a Muslim Marxist. The country had its own version of Hussein in Obama, also a Muslim Marxist.


19 posted on 06/05/2019 10:08:42 AM PDT by angry elephant (My MAGA cap is from a rally in Washingon state in May 2016)
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Anyone who wants socialism is free to move to N. Korea or Cuba.


22 posted on 06/05/2019 10:15:19 AM PDT by Innovative
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Forced sharing.


23 posted on 06/05/2019 10:21:43 AM PDT by Pajamajan ( Pray for our nation. Thank the Lord for everything you have. Don't wait.)
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id prefer anarchy or martial law to socialism


27 posted on 06/05/2019 10:30:43 AM PDT by TonytheTiger7777
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The right usually loses to socialism because it is fighting the wrong battle. We think it’s a political fight and so we make political arguments and propose political solutions to counter them, but socialism is not, at its heart, political. In essence, socialism is just an attempt to replace God and Christianity with a man-made, materialistic belief system.

As long as we keep trying to fight that in the political arena, the best we can hope for is some compromise result that is just a watered-down version of socialism. Plus, since the socialists never give up, they will keep refining that result to move it closer and closer to their original goal. Instead, we need to fight socialism in the cultural arena and turn peoples’ hearts and minds back to God. Once we do that, they will see for themselves that socialism cannot cure the ills of the world and toss it on the dungheap.


29 posted on 06/05/2019 10:54:33 AM PDT by Boogieman
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Long winded articles like this one certainly will not convert those who need to be educated.

Boring, long winded dissertation that would put to sleep anyone who really needs the answer.

Socialism will never compete with capitalism for a very simple reason easily explained in only a few sentences.

Socialism fails because when confronted with any problem, there will be any number of ideas presented as to how to solve the problem.

Whether it is global warming, green energy or war, there will be hundreds of proposed solutions.

Most ideas will fail. Many will give halfway satisfaction.

Only a few will be completely successful.

So whereas in a socialistic society everything depends on the decision maker/makers being right every time on every problem, a society operating under capitalism will always have individuals who will make the correct decision.

Under capitalism even though the majority may take the wrong road, enough will take the right road and as a result will prosper.

And as a result, those who guessed wrong ill have the opportunity to follow those who made the correct decision, maybe even going to work for the winner.

31 posted on 06/05/2019 10:58:31 AM PDT by old curmudgeon (There isTha no situation so terrible, so disgraceful, that the federal government can not make worse)
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Shouldn't be long now!


32 posted on 06/05/2019 11:21:48 AM PDT by Dick Bachert
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>Why Not Socialism?

A: Simple: It violates EVERY aspect of the Constitution and our inalienable Rights

Even simpler answer: One can move to any # of other countries of their choice


33 posted on 06/05/2019 11:40:46 AM PDT by i_robot73 (One could not count the number of *solutions*, if only govt followed\enforced the Constitution.)
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Socialism causes misery for everyone but the socialist elite — deliberately. Why do you think so many wealthy people are socialists?


34 posted on 06/05/2019 12:58:57 PM PDT by TBP (Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
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Excellent point about scientific method and reproducible results. Excellent.

But the dichotomy between objective reality and 'choice'? If one seeks to follow that which is faithful to reality, there's no conflict. That said, not all 'choices' are equal.

36 posted on 06/05/2019 1:54:28 PM PDT by gogeo (Liberal politics and mental instability; coincidence, correlation, or causation?)
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