[radiohead]

As long as there poverty stricken countries where the people believe that they have no other way to get ahead -they will grasp at a revolutionary philosophy that promises pie in the sky.

I agree. However, you don't have to be a poverty stricken country to accept socialism. My Scandinavian and Israeli associates believe that socialism provides freedom. Since they don't have to worry about health care, unemployment checks (plenty of socialists are unemployed, but they get checks longer than we do), they are free to pursue life's higher callings rather than worry about providing for themselves. (don't you just love intellectuals?)

I don't understand why people don't want to be in control of their own lives.

[gondramB]

>>I agree. However, you don't have to be a poverty stricken country to accept socialism. My Scandinavian and Israeli associates believe that socialism provides freedom. Since they don't have to worry about health care, unemployment checks (plenty of socialists are unemployed, but they get checks longer than we do), they are free to pursue life's higher callings rather than worry about providing for themselves. (don't you just love intellectuals?)<<

You are correct. I have a certain level of sympathy for poor people with no political power getting fooled with pie in the sky promises... but when educated people with access to the history of socialism for for it... its really grating and pathetic.

[TAdams8591]

"I agree. However, you don't have to be a poverty stricken country to accept socialism. My Scandinavian and Israeli associates believe that socialism provides freedom"

Very true. That same attitude is prevalent throught most of Europe and the Western World most of which has become largely socialized.