[allmendream]

Sorry, but after looking for the quote online I failed to come up with anything. If your only source for the quote is something you remember hearing on a radio show I will have to decline to accept it as accurate.

And why “6,000 years”? Socialism hasn't been an active political system anywhere near that long.

[Noumenon]

So don’t. I know what I heard, and it was unmistakeable.

As for your contention that socialism hasn’t been a political force for 6000 years, by adhering to a fairly narrow and rigid interpretation of that remark, you are technically correct but you’ve utterly lost the point and the significance in every other sense.

Men oppressing other men HAS been a recognizable force ever since humans decided to pursue agriculture. It’s the age-old face-off between those of us who wish to live our lives as we see fit and those who believe that it is their right and their duty to exercise dominion over every sphere of human thought and endeavor.

As a student of history and human nature, surely you must understand that.

[sitetest]

Dear allmendream,

When I googled the quote, I found several blogs and fora with the quote as well as an article from WND.

The most reputable source I got was from a column in the Baltimore Examiner from the Pittsburgh Examiner:

http://www.examiner.com/x-8817-Pittsburgh-Conservative-Examiner~y2009m8d21-Kennedy-asks-for-fasttrack-replacement-process—hypocrisy-at-its-finest

The article doesn't source the quote too well, either.

I would place it in my list of “things that are entirely possible, perhaps even slightly probably, but not proven.”

sitetest