Posted on 03/12/2018 6:30:21 AM PDT by C19fan
Last week, I wrote a column arguing that liberals concerned about ongoing failures in the American experiment should consider socialist remedies. I knew there would be quite a bit of disagreement. And I knew that most though, crucially, not all of it would unfold in bad faith.
What is bad faith? Its a term coined by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre that means, in the helpful gloss of George Mason University anthropologist Roger Lancaster, when you tell a lie and you start to believe it, then forget it was a lie. In the argumentative context, engaging in bad faith means to engage without really trying to understand or address the opposing view, which usually manifests in profound mischaracterizations of the other side. At that point especially when caught up in the thrilling energy of group condemnation its easy to forget that youre arguing against a position of your own invention.
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Let’s not, Comrade.
158 million people murdered by socialism, and counting. I’ve got an idea! Let’s try it again!
http://www.wnd.com/2012/08/socialisms-death-count/
Union of Soviet SOCIALIST Republics: Democide and Totalitarian Tyranny.
National SOCIALIST German Workers Party: Democide, Genocide, and Totaliatarian Tyranny
Peoples' Republic of China: Democide, Genocide, and Totalitarian Tyranny.
To hell with socialism.
The author is a child whose brain has not fully developed, yet we are supposed to change our way of life based on her wide-eyed musings?
The way we should respond to “but Norway . . .” is to say, “fine, stop all immigration from everywhere except Northern Europe and drill for oil in all of our offshore waters and pristine lands, wait a couple of generations for the country to becomes 90% white and swimming in oil revenue, then yes, we can have free college and national health care.”
You can’t have a good faith discussion with thieves and lairs like socialists.
The Soviet Union, Red China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Venezuela.... there’s the only “debate” that’s needed.
People are not stupid because they’re Socialists; they/re Socialists because they’re stupid...And too lazy to think things thru...
Socialism is the political philosophy of the lazy and the stupid, easily manipulated useful idiots...Tyrants like Hitler, Stalin, Mao, etc wait in the wings to take advantage...
Sure bud.
After you go live in Venezuela a year you can come back and we will talk.
Meant to say: Socialists are not stupid because they’re Socialists; they’re Socialists because they’re stupid...
But I ‘spose a reader here would get my drift anyhoo...
Venezuela.
You cannot have a good-faith discussion about socialism. It is crap. It is based on fantasy. It never works because human nature will always cause people to take advantage of the system.
‘We are all arguing with your annoying niece’
I know someone whose niece married an oriental woman; he’s past arguing, and doesn’t want to talk about it at all...
Socialism goes against base human nature.
As humans, we are born with the instinct and natural impulse to create the best we can for our offspring or family (chosen or born). Some go against that, and say instead of the family, let’s make the entire country the family, and a few people get to be the parents. It’s an antithesis to anything human nature has to offer.
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