Posted on 11/10/2005 6:41:15 AM PST by TheForceOfOne
No thanks! I do business with several rest. and it seems to me to be the hardest job in the world.
I didn't say the town was being nazi-like. I just pointed out, that contrary to your point of "how can it be socialism if it's a democratic vote," that the socialist agenda *can* be implemented democratically. As an example, National Socialist Germany, where they voted in socialists.
I did not say that socialism was the case here. Read more carefully, and don't put words in my mouth.
To more directly speak to the question at hand, socialism was a political system by progressives to try and move the means of production from capitalists to workers. That is what socialism was to socialists. Is that what is happening in Ogunquit? No, the workers at McDonald's are not being given the deed to the joint.
What is happening, though, is the erosion, or farce, of individual sovereignty to either own and operate a place of business, and to undermine the freedom of free assembly. Some have suggested the term "fascist" to describe this, but again, different people have different understandings of some of these words. When someone says this is "socialism, plain and simple," I *get* the point, and that's what important.
Because whether the town banning chain restaurants is socialist or fascist, it's truly part of the same political project. It's all about Progressives trying to re-shape the social relations of free people, using statist means. Sometimes they are social democrats, other times Communists or Fascists. But they all these techniques are inherantly anti-American, or at least, anti-American Constitution.
Hah! I love it!
But there is no tip money involved.
Do blue laws, dry counties, and zoning laws constitute being anti-American, yes or no?
Look, I also think small conservative cities and towns should be allowed to have their say and restrict strip clubs, adult book stores and as we've seen in many regions around the USA...dry counties. Community standards can run the gamut...who are you and I to decide what those standards should be? For some they'll be morals, others aesthetics, as long as the citizens of those communities are given the right to decide all is well. If you're on the losing side, you also have the right to move.
I don't think you can compare commerce and individual rights...there have always been commerce restrictions, most have been geographic, ie. zoning laws.
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