[Visiting Liberal]

Just as I suspected the 'liberal' position to be:

communism is a perfect system - it's people who are flawed.

You drastically misunderstand me. My intention wasn't to say that people are flawed, it was to point out that communism is. Any system that only works if people are...

1) Exactly the same
2) Perfect in every way
3) Capable of producing exactly as much output of resources as they use

...is a terrible system.

Every economic system has its strengths and weaknesses. Liberals tend to think that the best economic system is capitalism tempered with some socialism, such as in medical insurance. But we've got no illusions that that's a perfect system either.

Every economic system can and will be abused by those who know how to work it.

[headsonpikes]

Every economic system has its strengths and weaknesses. Liberals tend to think that the best economic system is capitalism tempered with some socialism, such as in medical insurance. But we've got no illusions that that's a perfect system either. Every economic system can and will be abused by those who know how to work it.

Let me be frank.

IMHO, your posts demonstrate a naivete about the possibility of melding free human action with socialism in any guise.

To me, the clear evidence of history is that the state has the skills and power to kill and destroy, but not to nurture or create.

But that's okay - that's all I, as a conservative, can ask the state to do!

It's you guys who have the problem of reconciling the sordid realities of the human experience wth your 'ideals'.