Please see my response - #83. Sorry the thread had cooled by the time I finished it.
I really absorbed what you had to say! Your carefully considered reply, though not very optimistic, was truthful and thoughtful and quite articulate of your point of view. I found it to be quite close to my own in many spots. Thanks for taking the time to compose it while the thread cooled.
Pretty good dianosis.. in #83...
A bit pessimistic.. I like that... but I'm an Opto-pessimist..
both pessimists and optimists are always wrong.. a little of both is the healthy and more accurate demeanor I think.. I hope Bush being a "unite'er and not a divider" is a lie otherwise the boy is as sharp as a bowling ball.. Its time for some serious division in this country.. maybe corporal division won't happen but rhetorical division can happen.. Just using the word socialist is like saying the King is naked these days none will do it.. Most socialists don't even know that they are socialists.. in my experience. Old people are the biggest socialists of all.. The U.S. is getting older.. not a good sign..
Many democrats I talk to.. don't even know what socialism IS.. Most actually think communism is NOT socialism.. And Nazi's were not socialists but fascists.. Educating on this item ALONE would do a world of good in this country. Because thats expressly what the divide, the polarization is.
The question; Are you a socialist ?. Should be asked often.. and persued.. Because most I have talked to have been brain washed by a plethora of other issues as if they were more important even republicans.. Abortion, church and state, gun control, social security, health care ALL pale in significance to that question. Are you a socialist OR NOT ?
A second question needs to asked; Is U.S. a democracy ? and if so what makes it a democracy.?.. Most are confused even republicans. Most often the answer is a democratic republic by the brightest ones.. and the U.S. is NOT a democratic republic.. Confusion... Phooey on the ad "this your brain on drugs".. We need an ad "this your brain on democracy".. Well done and informative who could deny that democracy is a mind altering DRUG... Thats what ails the liberals.. their mind is addicted to democracy.. democracy ALWAYS leads to socialism ALWAYS.. All democrats and many republicans are for the U.S. becoming a democracy. Oblivious to what that means..
Democracy is the road to socialism. Karl Marx
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.- Karl Marx
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.~Winston Churchill (1874-1965)