Posted on 10/22/2013 7:46:44 AM PDT by smoothsailing
Collectivism requires the fertile soil of an ignorant and morally malleable citizenry. It cannot grow in an honest or godly culture.
We, being what we are today, are perfectly ripe for a progressive utopia.
“They will institute a single payer system. As soon as those who are old enough to remember quality healthcare have died off, the rest will not know any difference and will be told that we have the best healthcare and they will believe it.”
I agree 100%.
Hadn't given that a thought!
The begining of the end of liberalism.
“A nice wish, but unlikely. Highly unlikely.”
Absolutely.
If anything, efforts will be renewed to bring
“social justice” to the United States by the hardcore left which hides behind children and “morality”.
IMHO
The free market isn’t just a good political idea. It is a natural force. Remove artificial, top-down pseudo-markets, and natural, healthy free markets will reappear by themselves. It’s like gravity. You can play at defying it, but in the end gravity, and free markets, cannot be avoided. The only alternative is cooperation. Marx is fiction. Adam Smith is reality. In the end, reality always wins.
That’s sharp and something a lot of FReepers don’t get about politics. You have to have 60% of Likely Voters backing your change if you want to see it succeed. You have to show that it won’t do harm or that it is in keeping with established traditions, customs and fairness. Then you have to overcome the lies from the opposition and their capon media. That’s hard.
You and I agree, but a lot of FReepers don’t. We’re up against a century of government schooling and media lies starting with Teddy’s crusade against trusts and the misnamed “robber” barons.
People, including nearly every teacher and journalist, don’t like or trust the free market. They are collectivists and believe and trust government to solve problems. It’s a high hill to climb.
Take a look at all the liberal businessmen and billionaires. How can they jive their politics with their business experience?
Now tonight Megyn Kelly plays Rush telling his listeners this: that Obama purposely created that Obamacare website broken so we demand government single payer health-care,
Now I am convinced that Rush just says this stupid stuff to see exactly how dumb his listeners are. He is just playing them. Rush, its working on a few.
Rush can't believe his own nonsense. He couldnt run a business if he did.
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