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To: WRhine
sometimes I have my doubts as socialism progresses in our country.

Hayek has a good take on the matter. Often, the problems that do surface are conceived because of socialism. And what is the typical knee-jerk Socialist solution? More socialist programs to counter the bad socialist programs. It's sort of like covering all the gang-green up with a band-aid; and also to add, there are socialists lurking in both parties, not just the Redistributionist Left.

Of course, the Naderites get First Place for most Socialists Per Party -- excluding the American Communist Party from the contest... but wait. Would the American Communist Party even want to be in the contest due to their disgust for the competitive nature of contest's?... This one may keep me up tonight....
978 posted on 01/02/2002 8:07:00 PM PST by WrenchChucker
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To: WrenchChucker
Of course, the Naderites get First Place for most Socialists Per Party -- excluding the American Communist Party from the contest... but wait. Would the American Communist Party even want to be in the contest due to their disgust for the competitive nature of contest's?... This one may keep me up tonight....

Hmmm. Interesting question. Reminds me of the movie "Between Time and Timbuktu" (something like that) about a perfect communist world. In the movie there was a scene where ice skaters purposely made mistakes so as to not be the best. However one of the ice skaters chose to skate to her natural ability causing the crowd discomfort. A cop watching the event with a ball and chain on his wrist to make sure he could not be the best shot gunned the skater down for daring to skate better than the others. It is a weird old movie that had some great messages.

983 posted on 01/02/2002 8:39:28 PM PST by WRhine
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