Posted on 01/12/2003 2:10:15 PM PST by Jean S
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:02:45 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
A conservative preacher once told me he thought "a little socialism was good." I was dumbfounded. He did not realize this was tantamount to saying a little evil is good.
In the early 1900s socialism was regarded as a crazy idea invented by revolutionaries and Marxists to disrupt civilization and bring down governments. But today the majority of Americans behave as socialists
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This place has precious few conservatives for a "conservative" website. If you subtract the Clinton/Democrat haters and the "Republicans no matter what" from the total, very few are left.
Then subtract the libertarians, (which is what conservatives used to be) and even fewer are left.
Ugh, him crazy, you crazy, all crazy. Time to smokem peace pipe.
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I never saw it happen. But the truth never was one of your strong points. Come to think of it, you have no strong points.
"You just did, - 'belabor' the point: Odd. I would have imagined that you'd instantly understand and admit that All transfer payments are theft. Including Socialist Security."
"Its a given. -- We all know that. There is no need to 'admit' it, unless some twit is trying to belabor the point. Please, tell me you understand the above. -- But if you can't, I give up, and you can have the last word of this really amusing exchange."
Young people are continually coming to free Republic, they are learning, as we are, while we may be becoming bored and frustrated by the things we know and learn here, it is necessary for the discussions to continue, don't you think?
There's the big picture and there's the details, both are pertinent. Excessive exaggeration is the way of today (must have learned it from the news medias),funny how we blend in scarcasm, which minus facial expression, voice tone, and body language is often misinterperted. It more frequently starts a defensive battle than it is true information. Oh well, that is how it is.
We know what we know, and we do not know, what we do not know, sorta like the stock market is ... lots of opinions and most of them have a selfish agenda. We are truly in trouble in the United States. Socialism does not work ... it is there to see around the world, yet we seem to blightly be skipping down the same path. Horrors!
As long as we spend hours with our schools teaching it to the students, having the T V programs of every sort demonstrating it, the news medias preaching it and the "bad news" of the day filtered through it's skewed view, ridiculing clear reason, we don't have a snowballs chance in hell of turning around on the path we are on now.
Sad! History has repeatedly demonstrated that change is constant. When societies reached peaks of knowledge and quality of life ... what do they do then ... gradually start screwing it up.
We are on the the roller coaster ... and it is careening down ... hopefully it is one of the lesser falls ...; however, let's teach our children and grandchildren what we can, while we can. MO
You may give up your own rights, but the rights of others are not violable because of it.
I wasn't born yet.
hopefully you can now.
I get along fine with the poster who uses that screen name.
And I don't smoke at all.
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Hey, I have an even better idea! Why go after a simple majority when you can knock out an overwhelming majority in one fell swoop? Since 90% of blacks vote Democrat, meaning that a majority of blacks are socialists (according to your own definition applied to women), you'll knock an even greater number of socialists out of the voting pool if you deprive them of their Constitutional rights. I'm only trying to help you better achieve your goal, you know, go about it more efficiently. Or better yet, just to be sure, why don't we only allow white men to vote? Knock both women and blacks out of the political process, then you'll really be getting back to the original Constitution. Then you won't have to win the war of ideas.
Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
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Perhaps.
Birth of Tha SYNDICATE, the philosophical heir to William Lloyd Garrison.
101 things that the Mozilla browser can do that Internet Explorer cannot.
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